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Chapter 6: The Brocade CLIYou access all three of these passwords the same way: type enable at the Userlevel prompt. The password you enter will determine which of the three modesyou enter into. Here's an example of a read-only login:Switch>enablePassword: Switch#config tInvalid input -> config tType ? for a listSwitch#The prompt shows that you are in Privileged EXEC mode, but you used the“read-only” password. This means that you can't change the configuration, butyou still have access to most “show” commands.It's important to remember that when you define passwords, they appear inplain text when you enter them. Afterwards, however, they are encrypted. Forexample, if we were to issue a show run command on the switch we just configured,we would see this:Switch#show runCurrent configuration:!ver 03.0.01cT3e1!!!!!!!!!enable super-user-password .....enable port-config-password .....enable read-only-password .....hostname Switch!!!!!!!endNotice that the passwords have been replaced with “.....” characters. Alsonotice that, no matter how long or short the password is, it will always bereplaced (in the show run command) with five periods.142 Brocade IP Primer