[cisco-voip] Serious 11.5 installation defect

[James Buchanan]

Let's all make a pact to set all our passwords as cisco/cisco. Who's game?

On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 10:33 AM, Scott Voll <svoll.voip at gmail.com> wrote:

> Sounds like one we had with Cisco Security Manager.  it would send a
> password under 15 characters correct because it encrypted the whole
> password.  but after 15 characters it would encrypt the 15 characters and
> add padding to the addition characters after the encryption. rather than
> sending the password with padding than encrypting it.
>
> Reminder that if it's Cisco to make sure your password is less than 16
> characters ;-)
>
> Scott
>
>
> On Sun, Aug 21, 2016 at 10:43 PM, Daniel Ohnesorge via cisco-voip <
> cisco-voip at puck.nether.net> wrote:
>
>> In this case, the customer has a strict password policy and the password
>> was generated via an internal web app. Normally I would also not use one
>> that long!
>>
>>
>> On 2016-08-22 13:57, Anthony Holloway wrote:
>>
>> Wow, good to know, but I cannot say that I have ever seen a password that
>>> long on a server before.  That's a first for me.  I tend to still use 8
>>> character length.  Old habit, I'm sure.
>>>
>>> Are you consistently deploy 16+ character passwords now a days?
>>>
>>> On Sun, Aug 21, 2016 at 5:54 PM, Daniel Ohnesorge via cisco-voip <
>>> cisco-voip at puck.nether.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi All,
>>>>
>>>> Just wanted to make you all aware of a serious installation defect with
>>>> 11.5 that the Cisco DE's are currently investigating and will soon be
>>>> raising a new defect against.
>>>>
>>>> Basically, the CUCM Publisher installation goes ahead fine but once you
>>>> try to install any subscriber (including the CUPS DB PUB), the installation
>>>> will fail after all Network and Connectivity checks passed. It has taken
>>>> TAC, BU and DE's 2 weeks to figure out what was going wrong, it turns out
>>>> that the password used for the Application User is too long (even though it
>>>> is withing documentation guidelines). The password I used was 1 Uppercase,
>>>> 14 lowercase, 1 number and 1 special character (underscore). DE's have been
>>>> able to replicate the issue in the lab using the same complexity. When
>>>> using a password such as ipcbu123 the installation is successful. This
>>>> affects CUCM, CUPS and CUC.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Daniel
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