[c-nsp] enable secret 'password'

Mikael Abrahamsson swmike at swm.pp.se
Tue Nov 27 00:08:19 EST 2012


On Tue, 27 Nov 2012, Andrew Miehs wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Cisco Cat 4500 running cat4500e-universalk9.SPA.03.03.02.SG.151-1.SG2.bin
>
> Warning: The CLI will be deprecated soon
> 'enable secret 5 $xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/'
> Please move to 'enable secret <password>' CLI
>
> Any suggestions on how to get around this - I don't really want the
> password lying around in plain text...

If you do what it asks and have "service password-encryption" enabled, 
what happens? I doubt it'll be in plaintext anyway.

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Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike at swm.pp.se


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