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is configured, type 8a passwords are shown in the configuration. AVD always specifies the type 7 password
bgp_peer_groups:
ipv4_underlay_peers:
# Name of peer group.
name: <str; default="IPv4-UNDERLAY-PEERS">
# Type 7 encrypted password.
password: <str>
Which component of AVD is impacted
eos_designs
Use case example
please detail your use case
Describe the solution you would like
The feature requested is to change the password type to 8a when password encryption reversible aes-256-gcm is set. In the alternative, set an additional key specifying the password_type under the peer_group.
Describe alternatives you have considered
We used a python script to update the setting, basically doing a:
Hmm maybe I reacted to quickly. If this is only asking for the password type to be 8a we could do it, but it would require you to encrypt the password on a box and put the encrypted string into the AVD inputs. What we would not support is allowing the arista.avd.password filter to encrypt passwords with 8a.
Implementing this support would also mean we need to enforce
Enhancement summary
When
is configured, type 8a passwords are shown in the configuration. AVD always specifies the type 7 password
Which component of AVD is impacted
eos_designs
Use case example
please detail your use case
Describe the solution you would like
The feature requested is to change the password type to 8a when
password encryption reversible aes-256-gcm
is set. In the alternative, set an additional key specifying the password_type under the peer_group.Describe alternatives you have considered
We used a python script to update the setting, basically doing a:
eos_cli = eos_cli.replace("password 7", "password 8a")
Additional context
No response
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