Detailed description of Wan protocol PPP → CHAP Verification

PPP → CHAP verification Summary

After the configuration is complete, we can use shwo run to view the configuration file. When we carefully view the configuration file, we suddenly realized that A and BVroThe user name and password verified by CHAP are in plain text, as shown in figure

Obviously, this is not safe. When some attackers steal the configuration file, the consequences are self-evident. To solve this problem, we can use A command to change the configuration file from plaintext to ciphertext. We perform the following operations on the two routers respectively. A (config) # service password-encryption B (config) # service password-encryption note: this command is irreversible

The following shows the configurations of the two vrouters: The displayed vrouters are all encrypted passwords.

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