How to recover tunnel passwords for PIX

[vinodpol]

I have PIX ipsec tunnels running for multiple locations. While adding one more tunnel I lost the all ipsec commands on PIX incuding tunnel paswords. As all tunnels are configured by diffrent engineers, I don't have passwords for all but I have backup config with me. only option for me to login to each front firewall and chnage the tunnel password for all at both ends. Before doing that can anyone knows how to recover passwords in this situation?

[michelcaissie]

If you were saving your config on a tftp server, then you can recover your pre-shared key , because they are saved in clear text.

If you don't have that and you deleted part of your config, then you can just reboot the PIX .

If you unfortunately saved the bad config in the PIX , and you don't have a tftp copy of the old config , you can still go in each firewall and save the config on tftp to see the preshared key. But this will take as much time as creating a new one.