Re: password for BGP in clear-text in bird.conf file?

On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 10:05:21AM -0700, Christopher Jay Manders wrote:

Hi,

I am not sure if this has been brought up before, but it is very sad that the password for BGP AUTH is in clear-text.

Is there anything in progress to rectify or discussion about this?

Hi There is not much to discuss. Because the way how it is used, the password must be in clear-text-recoverable form. The bird.conf could be protected by unix access rights if necessary. -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Ondrej 'Santiago' Zajicek (email: santiago@crfreenet.org) OpenPGP encrypted e-mails preferred (KeyID 0x11DEADC3, wwwkeys.pgp.net) "To err is human -- to blame it on a computer is even more so."