Recover BGP password(JUNOS)

From Juniper Clue

# Get a root shell:

user@router> start shell

% su - root

Password:

root@router%

# View the contents of /var/etc/keyadmin.conf

root@router% less /var/etc/keyadmin.conf

tcp 179 0.0.0.0 10.0.0.1 md5 instance default 0x6162636431323334

tcp 179 :: 2001:DB8:1::1 md5 instance default 0x313233717765727479

# Run the following command on a system with Perl :

user@box:~>perl -e 'print "Hex: ";$_=<>;print "MD5: ";s/(\w\w)/\1:/g;for (split(/:/)) {printf "%s", chr(hex($_))};print "\n"'

Hex: 0x6162636431323334

MD5: abcd1234

user@box:~>perl -e 'print "Hex: ";$_=<>;print "MD5: ";s/(\w\w)/\1:/g;for (split(/:/)) {printf "%s", chr(hex($_))};print "\n"'

Hex: 0x313233717765727479

MD5: 123qwerty

That's it! Many thanks for the person who provided me this code and to the person who developed it :)

 

 

PS by lotson:

"a system with perl" means a system that have the "perl" command, just like ubuntu and so on.

And I have test the method above myself, and it works well!