Running the hd command on a file backed up with the pmreadconf command
produces this:
00000000 01 63 6f 6e 66 69 67 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |.config.........|
00000010 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
00000020 00 00 00 00 da 36 2e 31 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |.....6.1........|
00000030 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
00000040 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 40 00 ** ** ** ** ** |.........@.*****|
00000050 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
00000060 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ff 00 05 a2 ce |................|
00000070 ce 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 31 |...............1|
..and so on..
The ***** on the forth line is the !root password.
On Mon, 11 Aug 1997, Joe Hartley wrote:
> MegaZone <megazone@livingston.com> wrote:
> > Once upon a time Hans Schaechl shaped the electrons to say...
> > >I never was too happy about the fact that the PM's
> > >username/password information is stored in plain-
> > >text in the configuration dump-files.
> >
> > The PM does not currently support saving configuations out in plain text
> > at all.
>
> No, but the files that are created by pmreadconf on my Sun stores
> various information in clear text, including the !root password, the
> SNMP community, any login/passwords stored in a users table and the
> RADIUS secret.
>
> Aquiring one of these dumps would make it very easy to begin to wreak
> havok at an installation.