Upgrade Cisco Passwords to Type 6

This Video demonstrates how to upgrade type 7/0 passwords to Type 6 AES encryption.
Type 6 Encryption replaces service-password encryption and will encrypt present and future plaintext (0) and type 7 encrypted passwords, however, it will not encrypt enable password or enable secret.

[theadventurousprogrammer]

Might need to do this on my network. See if I can automate it all. Thanks Seth!

[carloscardenas]

very good. no there is videos abouth of password type 6

[PMPerformance]

Thanks for the video. I have actually been stuck with type 6 passwords encrypted that prior engineers did not note anywhere and now I am building g some new routers and wanted to upgrade them to type 6.

Question I have though, is will it change everything that you created the type 6 password to that password? Like is your tacacs key/password you configured as well the the local login now that same encrypted password? Or can you still keep them separate?

[shanavaska]

Good video. Really appreciate that. What will happen if we wanted to change Key for password encryption later? Would that impact VPN pre-shared key encrypted using earlier password encryption key?

[crunchtimel]

exactly what I needed to know after getting that message about 0, 5 and 7 being depreciated.

Do you know if we can copy the config to another switch using the same password 6, do I just need to type "password encryption aes" only since the key string will be the same?