[nsp] cisco password hash problems?

[jlewis at lewis.org]

On Tue, 13 Apr 2004, Stephen J. Wilcox wrote:

> I have seen it on 12.0(?) variations where something changed and any hashed
> passwords (username/radius secret) stopped working.. not seen it on any of the
> 12.1/12.2 strains tho.

I've just noticed the other day, several of my routers running various
12.2S versions have stopped encrypting the enable password (not the enable
secret).  Commands entered as:
enable password 0 cleartext
end up in the config as
enable password 7 cleartext

service password-encryption is enabled.

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