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From: HANK@TAUNIVM.BITNET (Hank Nussbacher)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.sys.cisco
Subject: Feature/bug in password handling
Message-ID: <25934@boulder.Colorado.EDU>
Date: 10 Sep 90 13:31:48 GMT
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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).
 
Users are warned to watch their trailing blanks when updating their
passwords.
 
This makes for an excellent security feature (have the hackers guessing
how many trailing blanks exist) but I would prefer that this feature be
removed in a future release.
 
Hank