The enhanced password security in Cisco IOS introduced in 12.0(18)S allows an admin to configure MD5 encryption for passwords. Prior to this feature the encryption level on Type 7 passwords used a week encryption and can be cracked easily and the clear text password (type 0) as anyone would know is completely insecure. Anyone who can gain access to the privilege mode can view/decrypt these passwords.
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How to set Passwords in Cisco IOS Routers and Switches
One of the basic configurations when setting up a Cisco Router or a Cisco Switch is setting the passwords. This includes, setting the passwords for the Console, Telnet/SSH and the Enable (Enable Secret)
The following procedure will help starters set up passwords in Cisco Routers and Switches running Cisco IOS.
Nipper – Network device Security Audit tool
Nipper is an Opensource tool for network device congiguration and security audit. Nipper performs security audits of network device configuration files. The report produced by Nipper includes; detailed security-related issues with recommendations, a configuration report and various appendices. (more…)