User not configured but still able to login on cisco 2960 switches

[astro-saurabh]

Hi Community,

Recently I stumbled across a strange behavior on our Cisco 2960 switches. We've a local user which can login to the switch.

However, when I check in the run-conf, the user doesn't appear to be configured in the local db.

Login user:
Switch1#show users
Line User Host(s) Idle Location
* 1 vty 0 recovery idle 00:00:00 10.xx.xx.129

Interface User Mode Idle Peer Address


Running config:
Switch1#show running-config | i user
username slahoti privilege 15 secret 9 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

System version:
Cisco IOS Software, C2960X Software (C2960X-UNIVERSALK9-M), Version 15.2(7)E7, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc10)
Technical Support: http://www.cisco.com/techsupport
Copyright (c) 1986-2022 by Cisco Systems, Inc.
Compiled Thu 22-Sep-22 08:33 by mcpre

ROM: Bootstrap program is C2960X boot loader
BOOTLDR: C2960X Boot Loader (C2960X-HBOOT-M) Version 15.2(6r)E, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)

Did someone already experineced something like this..? And could someone help me understand why this happens so..?


Thanks..!!

Kr,
Saurabh.

[balaji.bandi]

Looks for me cosmetic bug if you logged in as slahoti 

if that worries you try upgrade to E10 and see if that work for you.

[shambhu.kumar]

I had a same issue. I upgraded to 15.2(7)E9. 

[Michaelkarper]

Can you share your aaa config? 
"sh run | s aaa"

[Richard Burts]

I agree that seeing the aaa config would be helpful. Also helpful if we could see show run | beg vty

[MHM Cisco World]

username slahoti privilege 15 secret 9 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX <<- there is user in local db

MHM