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Local Privilege Authentication and Authorization

When you first begin your education about Cisco devices and how they operate, you quickly learn about the local database approach to authorization. Let us review the key points here.

There are four main methods for administrative access to the Cisco router or switch that you can control using all local techniques. These administrative access options are as follows:

• The console port (con 0)
• The virtual terminal lines or vty ports (vty 0 4)
• The auxiliary port (aux 0)
• HTTP (ip http server)
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All of the staff here at IPexpert want to wish the best of luck to the Troubleshooting Bootcamp students as they are delivered their final exams.

Congratulations on all of the hard work you have put in to get to this point!

If you are interested in the next upcoming bootcamp series for Troubleshooting, here is the schedule:

• Tuesday, December 4, 2012: Topic: The Quick-Fire Strategy; Layer 2 TS
• Tuesday, December  11, 2012: Topic: IPv4 TS
• Tuesday, December  18, 2012: Topic: IPv6 TS
• Tuesday, January  8, 2013: Topic: MPLS TS
• Tuesday, January  15, 2013: Topic: Multicast TS
• Tuesday, January  22, 2013: Topic: Network Security TS
• Tuesday, January  29, 2013: Topic: Network Service TS
• Tuesday, February  5, 2013: Topic: QoS and Optimizing TS

*All classes are scheduled for 8:00 – 10:30PM EST.