tsf@opus.telcom.arizona.edu (Ted Frohling) (07/06/90)
We ran into a strange problem with passwords on the vty terminals on our Cisco routers (well at least one). We usually have a config file set up on a tftp host ready for the initial load on the router after the initial power up. So after we wait for the router to time out and ask us to get started, we go into config and tell it to config from the net, saves typing... We a strange thing happend on the way there. When we created our config file, we inadvertently put a space character after the real password for each of the vty lines. i.e. password foopass \n. When the router booted, it parsed the space after foopass and the newline as part of the password. We didn't tryit, but does this mean we could have passwords of the kind...password this is a password\n, so that the password would contain the spaces? Could be useful in security, who whould think of a space as valid character in a password. But it's a pain when it's inadvertent. -- Ted Frohling tsf@arizona.edu The University of Arizona 602.621.4834 University Telecommunications Tucson, AZ 85721