Hi, and once again Helo :-)
Ive just received this note at my inbox:
"Isn't enable password just the older form of enable
secret?"
Reading this allmost made me go into shock! Is this true??! Cause if it
is im out of werdz(?)
For allmost a year now I have with 30 something other youngsters
As a general rule, the enable password and the enable secret password grant
the same privilege level of access to the router. The enable secret works
as a one way hash (MD5) and is very difficult to break (there are tools,
like John the Ripper, that will do so given enough time). The enable
et you judge if your being lied to...
Thanks
Larry
-Original Message-
From: Morgan Hansen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, July 01, 2002 1:56 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Please tell me it isnt so :( [7:47863]
Hi, and once again Helo :-)
Ive just received this note a
- Original Message -
From: "Morgan Hansen"
To:
Sent: Monday, July 01, 2002 2:55 PM
Subject: Please tell me it isnt so :( [7:47863]
> Hi, and once again Helo :-)
>
> Ive just received this note at my inbox:
>
> "Isn't enable password just the older f
He speaketh the truth.
Dan
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of
Paul Borghese
Sent: Monday, July 01, 2002 1:56 PM
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Subject: Re: Please tell me it isnt so :( [7:47863]
Ugh! Your teachers are incorrect.
The enable
One thing I have not seen discussed yet is why you would have both in the
config. Older routers like 2500s with REAL boot roms did not intially
support enable secret. You thus had to have an enable password configured
so that if the router crashed to boot rom, it still had some protection. If
a
Morgan,
The 'enable password' command is the original
command that allows you to go to 'priviliged EXEC'
mode and configure the router/switch. Although the
password can be encrypted, it isn't a very robust
technique and can be cracked by putting the password
back into the algorithm.
The
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