[asterisk-users] Hide the plain text password

[Danny Nicholas]

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[mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Jeremy Kister
Sent: Monday, February 14, 2011 3:44 PM
To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Hide the plain text password

On 2/14/2011 4:36 PM, Jian Gao wrote:
> Now in my asterisk config files, there are lines like:
> secret=some_password_in_plain_text
>
> Is it possible to hide these plain text password?

I think 'md5secret' is what you're looking for.

http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+sip+md5secret


Jeremy Kister
http://jeremy.kister.net./

md5secret will slow down the malicious person OP is/was worried about, but
won't stop them.