router wont prompt enable

Yes i did enable secret mysecret and enable password mypassword and the router does not prompt for a password. it goes in enable mode as soon as i type enable. any ideas?

Do you login with a username who already has priviledge 15 ? I think if it is the case, then 'enable' won't ask you a password any more.

DT

Hm.. if your line "password enable myenablepassword" is not a tipfeller, then you used wrong syntax. Real syntax is "enable password ".

If you actually used that, you should see if you can find that line in running config and if you can see any "enable secret" lines which have higher priority than "enable password".

HTH,

Have you checked for bugs in your specific IOS? This sounds like one...

line vty 0 4 privilege level 15 password 7 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX transport input telnet ! no scheduler allocate ! end May be this explains something? but i still can figure out way. I was reading about auto enable. I believe my user privilage is 7. Looks normal. Thanks

For the above config, I believe anybody who can telnet to your router will have the privilege 15, which will give you the higest permission. So if you can login, you do not have to submit the enable password any more.

You can delete that line "privilege level 15", and assign each user an appropriate privilege level. Then it will ask you for a password for the enable command.

DT

Thanks, i figure it out after googleing for a while.I was starting to think there was something wrong with the router.