[HamWAN PSDR] Oops!

[Nigel Vander Houwen]

I'm not sure what you're meaning there, but it's only impacting a situation where someone else has command line access to your modem. It's stored in the equivalent of .bash_history, and there was no way to clear it, so someone else could look and see. Now there is a way to clear it.

Nigel
K7NVH

On Mar 14, 2014, at 5:12 PM, Dean Gibson AE7Q <hamwan at ae7q.net> wrote:

> Oh, OK;  it's on the way out (radio to other machine), not the way in (other machine to radio)?
> 
> On 2014-03-14 17:09, Nigel Vander Houwen wrote:
>> 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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