What happens if enable password and enable secret password are the same?
The main difference between enable and enable secret is encryption. With enable, the password that you give is stored in a plain text format and is not encrypted. With enable secret password, the password is actually encrypted with MD5. The same will also reveal the password made by enable secret.
What algorithm is the enable secret password encrypted with?
MD5 algorithm
Cisco introduced the enable secret password to improve the security of the enable password command. This command uses the cryptographically strong MD5 algorithm to encrypt passwords.
What is type5 password?
Cisco type 5 password This password type was introduced around 1992 and it is essentially a 1,000 iteration of MD5 hash with salt. The salt is 4 characters long (32 bits). For modern computers this is not difficult enough and thus in many cases it can be successfully cracked.
What is a Type 5 password?
Type 5 refers to a hashed password, which is irreversible. This is a first line defense against someone who has physical access and is easily broken if you care to Google the correct phrase you’ll get sites that will reveal the password.
How does the Cisco’s command’enable secret < password?
This command uses by default MD5 to hash the last string (i.e weakpassword) . The thing is that when I use an online MD5 Hash Generator for ‘weakpassword’ I get the hash e04efcfda166ec49ba7af5092877030e and when I use the pre-mentioned command I get the hash $1$mERr$A4DAiA6cbNxoV7Y2eEVOA0 which apparently is not the same.
What kind of password hash does Cisco use?
On some of the more recent versions of Cisco IOS, IOS-XE, IOS-XR, and some of the other OS variants, users can specify the algorithm as part of the configuration. $1$ marks the MD5-crypt password hash also commonly used in past years for user passwords in Linux systems.
What’s the difference between MyPass and enable secret?
Use enable secret instead. username joeblow password mypass command should no longer be used. Use username joeblow secret mypass instead. Type 4 Passwords should never be used!
What does level 1 in enable secret password mean?
Level 1 is normal EXEC-mode user privileges. If this argument is not specified in the command or in the no form of the command, the privilege level defaults to 15 (traditional enable privileges). The same holds true for the no form of the command. what are these levels and what they mean?