[c-nsp] use "?" in passwords
Kevin Graham
mahargk at gmail.com
Wed Nov 15 12:18:20 EST 2006
On 11/15/06, Ian Henderson <ianh at chime.net.au> wrote:
> Tassos Chatzithomaoglou <mailto:achatz at forthnet.gr> wrote on Wednesday,
> 15 November 2006 5:00 PM:
>
> > I always had this question: Is is possible to use the "?" character
> > in passwords in cisco configurations?
>
> Press Control+V before the question mark.
...and if you want to encrypt it ahead of time, its just a standard
MD5 crypt; just make sure you use 4 digits of salt rather than the 8
commonly used in the UNIX world. (Sure would be nice for an exec-mode
password command, but I digress).
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