password encryption

[Martin Kraus]

On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 05:22:50PM +0200, David Rohleder wrote:
> Make your bird.conf readable just for proper users (bird daemon and
> admin)
> 
> There is hardly any way to "encrypt" password, because bird daemon must
> decrypt it (ok, you can have separate file with encryption key, but you
> are in the same situation with key file)

well the only interesting application might be allowing users on the router
access to the bird configuration. can't think of any real world example and I
hardly think developers are going to implement it just because cisco has some
kind of password obuscation in their config.

mk