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Cisco IOS privilege levels

Cisco IOS privilege levels

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Cisco IOS privilege levels

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(gentle music) - [Instructor] Cisco IOS gives us a variety of commands. However, we might not want every user to have access to each command. For example, maybe we want somebody at the help desk to be able to issue some show commands, maybe help diagnose an issue, but maybe they're not trained to go configure an advanced routing protocol. What we can do is use privilege levels to dictate which commands are available to which users, and that's what we're going to be checking out in this video. Specifically, we have 16 different privilege levels that we can assign commands to, and those are numbered in the range of zero through 15. There are three of these that we have by default, and if we want, we can populate the other three default privilege levels we have. First we have level zero. This only supports five commands. There's not much we can do here except go to a different privilege level, get some basic help, or exit. When we first log into a router or a switch, however, we're in…

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