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CISCO 'Enable' Password Management

  • June 3, 2025
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We have a requirement to onboard Cisco devices into Password Safe. For privilege escalation, we need to use the 'enable' secret. The non-privileged user account and the enable secret use separate passwords.

Is there a way to manage this scenario in Password Safe?

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  • BeyondTrust Employee
  • 106 replies
  • June 4, 2025

Hello ​@Avishka Vithanage  

Yes you can manage these Cisco devices.

When creating a functional account for the Custom Platform Cisco Secret you can specify a username, password and enable password.

Regards,

John


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Hello ​@Avishka Vithanage  

Yes you can manage these Cisco devices.

When creating a functional account for the Custom Platform Cisco Secret you can specify a username, password and enable password.

Regards,

John


Hi John,

Thank you for your response!
This is ok for the Functional account, but we need to have the enable command for Managed Account. If the user is required to login to the Cisco Device, we must automate two passwords (one for login, 2nd password for privilege exec mode). We must inject the enable password for the session


  • Rising Star
  • 7 replies
  • November 5, 2025

We have a very similar request over on the PRA side of the house. We integrate PRA with PS and would love the ability to reinject the credential into critical commands that require a re-auth. Expert, Enable, SUDO. 

 

Currently the work around is to disable the need for password or to check out the credential from PS and copy paste. Both ideas work but are not as secure as allowing a re inject after the initial session.