In the following commands quotes are only used for illustration. They should not be typed as part of the command.

1. Telnet to or Console into the Cisco Router or Switch running IOS.
2. At the prompt, type "enable" and press enter to go to privileged mode.
3. Type "config t" to go into configuration mode.
4. Type username 'theusername' password 'thepassword' and press enter.

**Note - the actual username and password you want to configure should be typed in the command instead of 'theusername' and 'thepassword'.

5. Type "line vty 0 4" and press enter, to go into the vty configuration mode.
6. Type "login local" and press enter.
7. Type "exit" and press enter.
8. Type "exit" and press enter.
9. You should be back in privileged mode.
10. Type "wr mem" to save the configuration options you just changed to nvram.

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