User passwords with blank spaces
Overview Arista EOS allows users to define local user accounts using the command “username <name> secret <password> “, where <password> is a plain text password. However, the Arista CLI does not accept blank spaces in the <password> portion of the command. This restriction is due to a limitation in the parsing algorithm EOS uses to find the password in the command. The parsing algorithm does not recognize blank spaces when parsing the password. To work around this issue a password with blank spaces can be manually converted to a SHA512 hash and the hash can be applied to...
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