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From: dougm@ico.isc.com (Doug McCallum)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.sys.cisco
Subject: Re: Feature/bug in password handling
Message-ID: <1990Sep10.200259.400@ico.isc.com>
Date: 10 Sep 90 20:02:59 GMT
References: <25934@boulder.Colorado.EDU>
Reply-To: dougm@ico.ISC.COM (Doug McCallum)
Organization: Interactive Systems Corp., Boulder CO
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In article <25934@boulder.Colorado.EDU> HANK@TAUNIVM.BITNET (Hank Nussbacher) writes:
>I am not sure if this a feature or a bug, but the cisco configure processor
>preserves trailing blanks.  This causes the nasty problem of a password
>typed in as "XYZ " appearing as XYZ but actually needing "XYZ " to work
>(note the trailing blank).

A minor related complaint is that the "enable-password" command doesn't need
to be entered as a complete name.  "enable" is sufficient.  I got caught
by this when enabling CLNS via the terminal configuration and transposed
"clns enable" to "enable clns".  It took a while to figure out what I did.
It makes for great fun trying to figure out what happened when you can't
become enabled and the new password was written to NVRAM.

I think the enable-password should be required to be typed in completely
to avoid catching people by surprise.

Doug McCallum
Interactive Systems Corp.
dougm@ico.isc.com