ERROR: The secret you entered is not a valid encrypted secret.

[preeth puliyasseri]

Hi Team,

I Was trying to give the following command to router and it showing the following error.

R4(config)#enable secret level 15 5 340ebe883cb3a6ddca0bcd0fbafe5ae4
ERROR: The secret you entered is not a valid encrypted secret.
To enter an UNENCRYPTED secret, do not specify type 5 encryption.
When you properly enter an UNENCRYPTED secret, it will be encrypted.

How i can give the encrypted secret of "preeth"?

Is there any tools available? or any sites can help me on this?

[johnlloyd_13]

hi,

enable secret uses MD5 which hard to decrypt.

could you try?

R4(config)#enable secret level 15 preeth

[Karsten Iwen]

As John said, you always can use the plain password for the command. If you want to calculate the "encrypted" secret, you can do that with openssl:

kiMaMi:~ karsten$ openssl passwd -salt `openssl rand -base64 3` -1 preeth
$1$nPxi$RD.vbmWc/Vptkq/wmqpsF.