Enabling or Disabling Password Obscured for CLI

You can enable the device to display passwords encrypted (obscured) instead of in plain text for the following CLI areas:

Output of the show running-config CLI command.
Downloaded CLI Script file.

When passwords are displayed in the obscured mode, the string "obscured" is displayed after the encrypted password, as shown in the following example:

password tIWHhYONjw== obscured
To enable or disable password obscured for CLI:
(config-system)# cli-settings
(cli-settings)# password-obscurity on|off
The password obscured feature is enabled by default.
If you configure password obfuscation by encryption key (see Password Obfuscation in CLI Script and ini Files), the password obscured feature is automatically disabled.