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Re: (ASCEND) Pipeline Configurator Caution



At 01:11 PM 8/11/97 -0700, Kevin Smith wrote:
>At 07:20 PM 8/10/97 -0400, Clifford Donley wrote:
>>Earlier today I used the configurator to backup my Pipe 75. After it was
>>done, I went back and looked at the file that was created. Every password
>>was saved in clear text. Not nice. The Pipe is one of the new ones that
>>uses 5.0b; the configurator is v5.0a.
>
>Ah, interesting...I thought there was an option - apparently not. I'll look
>into this; though I see it is as documented.
>
>I know in the past (long time ago), we were actually getting complaints that
>the config-save on our MAX units did NOT include the passwords, so we added
>that feature into the TFTP config save (the console method "save config"
still
>does not save passwords).
>
>Maybe an option would be the best solution.

An option is OK as long as it defaults to the current behavior.

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