Eh?
No, I meant is the "service password-encryption" configured on the router?
If so, then the password will not be written in plain text in the router
config file... so if you use a command like:
show running-config
You might see something like:
line vty 0 4
password a9vyt3$l3 7
login
In this case, the password is encrypted. The actual password is not
"a9vyt3$l3". Typing that string in when prompted for a password will not log
you into the router. That's what I am saying (and I thought that's what the
original poster was seeing).
What traverses the wire is of course not encrypted, unless you make it so by
some other means not described here...
Dale
[=`)
>From: "jh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: "Dale Holmes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: Telnet password
>Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2000 17:14:28 -0400
>
>The telnet session as a whole, password,communication is not encrypted. It
>is very easily sniffed.
>
> How is goes across the wire and how it is stored are two different items.
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Dale Holmes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2000 1:14 PM
>Subject: Re: Telnet password
>
>
> > Is the password encrypted? If so, the then what you see in the config is
>the
> > encrypted password, not the password itself...
> >
> > Dale
> > [=`)
> >
> > >From: Marshal Schoener <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > >Reply-To: Marshal Schoener <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > >Subject: Telnet password
> > >Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2000 00:06:00 +0800
> > >
> > >I'm telnetting into a router using a password that I can't find
>anywhere
> > >:-)
> > >
> > >I look at the running-config, and see 'line vty 0 4'
> > >password (password)...
> > >login
> > >
> > >However, this isn't the password that I use to telnet in, and it
>doesn't
> > >work if
> > >I try it!!! Can anyone help me to understand this :-)
> > >I would like to change the password used to telnet in, but I just can't
> > >figure
> > >this out...
> > >Thanks a million in advance.
> > >
> > >
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