Enabling Password Obscured for CLI

You can enable the device to display passwords in the output of the CLI command show running-config in encrypted (obscured) format instead of in plain text. When passwords are displayed encrypted, the word "obscured" appears after the password.

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To enable obscured password display in CLI:

(config-system)# cli-settings
(cli-settings)# password-obscurity on

Below shows two examples of password display (obscured and plain text) in the show running-config output for a password configured for a Remote Web Service:

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Password displayed in encrypted (obscured) format:

password tIWHhYONjw== obscured 

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Password displayed in plain text:

rest-password John1234