Description

This article quickly shows the available encryption algorithms for local user passwords on the SRX devices in case they anyone requires to modify or identify them.

Solution

While editing a password, we can check the following options:

 

[edit system login]
password {
    format (sha1 | sha256 | sha512);

This shows us the supported formats for the passwords

For any additional options you can check:

https://www.juniper.net/documentation/us/en/software/junos/user-access/topics/topic-map/user-access-plaintext-password.html

Modification History

2024-04-30 : Article Created