RANCID login info

Austin Schutz tex at off.org
Thu Jan 26 18:59:46 UTC 2006


On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 09:12:01AM -0700, Justin Grote wrote:
> Andrew Fort wrote:
> 
> >Kanagaraj Krishna wrote:
> >
> >>Hi,
> >>     I'm using RANCID config management tool. As we know the login 
> >>for the equipments/devices are kept in the .cloginrc file. I'm quite 
> >>worried about this as brings a security vulnerability. Is there a way 
> >>of keeping the user login password in encrypted format?
> >

	You can mitigate the vulnerability somewhat by applying an ACL
to make sure only the polling box can login to the devices.

	Austin



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