In this session of A Few Easy Steps, we will be setting up Authentication on the console port on a Cisco Router. In General this will work on any Cisco Switch or Router that runs on IOS.

Session Prerequisites:

• You have terminal or console access to your Cisco device.

Session Assumptions:

• Console port is 0
• Login Credentials will be Local

Our goals of this session are:

• Setup local User Account
• Setup authentication on console port

Setup local User Account

conf t
!
username sessiontest password session test
!
end
!
copy running-config startup-config

Setup authentication on console port

conf t
!
line con 0
!
login local
!
end
!
copy running-config startup-config
! 

Entire Session:

conf t
!
username sessiontest password session test
!
exit
!
line con 0
!
login local
!
end
!
copy running-config startup-config