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Assign privilege levels

Assign privilege levels

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Assign privilege levels

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- [Instructor] In a Cisco iOS, there are 16 privilege levels in total. Level zero, one, and 15 have predefined settings. The administrator can customize and assign privilege levels and assign different commands to levels two through 14 according to an organization's structure and the different job functions that require access to the managed devices. I'm here in Packet Tracer and let's take a look at the different levels. I'll just fire up a router. First let's see what you can do at level 15. We'll run show privilege and it confirms that we're at privilege level 15. Then I'll put a question mark to see what commands I can run. Of course there are a lot because privilege level 15 is the highest level which you can do anything to the router. We'll scroll up here and confirm that at level 15, you can go into configuration mode. Now we'll enable privilege level 11 and now I'll do a question mark to see what commands I can run. It's a pretty short list. As you can see at level 11, I…

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