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

[Ondrej Zajicek]

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 at crfreenet.org)
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