[HamWAN PSDR] Oops!

Nigel Vander Houwen nigel at k7nvh.com
Fri Mar 14 17:09:13 PDT 2014


Older versions (5.x) of RouterOS had no way to clear the command line history, thus leaving your password in the logs for anyone with access to go and look at. 6.x has added a feature allowing you to clear the history, in theory resolving the issue.

Nigel
K7NVH

On Mar 14, 2014, at 5:08 PM, Dean Gibson AE7Q <hamwan at ae7q.net> wrote:

> The Wiki says, "NEVER type passwords using the command line interface (SSH/Terminal/Telnet). There is a known security breach here."
> 
> What is the issue?
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