Key-String - Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Command Reference Manual

key-string

key-string
To configure the text for a key, use the key-string command. To remove the text, use the no form of this
command.
key-string [ encryption-type ] text-string
no key-string text-string
Syntax Description
encryption-type
text-string
Command Default
None
Command Modes
Key configuration
Command History
Release
4.0(1)
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(Optional) Type of encryption to use. The
encryption-type argument can be one of the following
values:
• 0—The text-string argument that you enter is
unencrypted text. This is the default.
• 7—The text-string argument that you enter is
encrypted. The encryption method is a Cisco
proprietary method. This option is useful when
you are entering a text string based on the
encrypted output of a show key chain command
that you ran on another Cisco NX-OS device.
Text of the key string, up to 63 case-sensitive,
alphanumeric characters. The value of the first 2 digits
of a type 7 key string configured by using the
key-string 7 text-string command has to be between
0 and 15. For example, you can configure
07372b557e2c1a as the key string value in which case
the sum value of the first 2 digits will be 7. But, you
cannot configure 85782916342021 as the key string
value because the value of the first 2 digits will be
85. We recommend unconfiguring any type 7 key
strings that do not adhere to this value or to configure
a type 0 string.
Modification
This command was introduced.
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