Password management method and equipment thereof

Abstract

The invention discloses a password management method and equipment thereof. The method comprises the following steps: network management equipment acquires the password used by network equipment, wherein the password is a simple password or a cipher password; when the password is the simple password, the network management equipment acquires the cipher password corresponding to the simple password and records a corresponding relationship between the simple password and the cipher password; when the password is the cipher password, the network management equipment acquires the simple password corresponding to the cipher password and records the corresponding relationship between the simple password and the cipher password. In the invention, through maintaining the corresponding relationship between the simple password and the cipher password, the network management equipment can determine whether the password of the network equipment is falsified.

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technical field [0001] The invention relates to the field of communication technology, in particular to a password management method and equipment. Background technique [0002] With the continuous development of Internet applications, more and more information and data need to be stored, which are becoming more and more important, so the requirements for network security are getting higher and higher; in order to improve network security, various encryption methods emerge in endlessly. Therefore, a large number of passwords need to be saved on devices (such as routers, switches, etc.), and current network devices provide two password display methods, namely the simple method and the cipher method. The simple method displays passwords in plain text (that is, plain text passwords). The cipher mode is to display the password in cipher text (that is, the cipher text password). [0003] In the prior art, there will be a large number of network devices in the network, and the us...

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[0005] When the network device displays the cipher text password in cipher mode, the network management device can only read the cipher text password from the network device, and the network management device only saves the plain text password entered by the user, so the network management device cannot judge the password on the network device whether it has been tampered with

[0006] After the network management device discovers the configuration of the network device, if a password has been set on the network device, when the network device displays the cipher text password in cipher mode, the network management device can only obtain the cipher text password, and because the network management device does not know the network device password encryption and decryption algorithm, so the network management device cannot obtain the plaintext password based on the ciphertext password, that is, it cannot display the plaintext password corresponding to the ciphertext password to the user

[0007] Therefore, when the network device displays the cipher text password in cipher mode, the network management device cannot provide the function of judging whether the password has been tampered with

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