Type9

A tool that is meant to easily generate password hashes in the format used by Cisco networking devices for validating passwords of users local to the device. A common use for this tool is to generate hashes for a known password when creating device templates.

Run in a container

A container is an ideal way to execute this tool because not all Linux distributions make the scrypt python module easily available. Running in a container abstracts the dependencies away and enables the user of the tool to quickly and reliably generate the hash value they need to perform their task.

It can simply be run at the CLI with a given plain-text password to generate a pseudo random salt and use that to build the has with this simple command:

docker run --rm -it timway/type9 PlainTextPassword

It can be passed a specific salt value like so:

docker run --rm -it timway/type9 eM53DRPA3ClnY2 PlainTextPassword

If you'd like to store the hash value of a password in an environment variable, possibly for usage in a template use this command:

HASH=`docker run --rm -it timway/type9 eM53DRPA3ClnY2 PlainTextPassword`

You can consume for example like this:

echo "username type9 privilege 15 ${HASH}"

Install into the local Python environment

The tool can be installed via setuptools into the user, global or virtual environment using the following command:

python setup.py install

The parameters are the same as the example in a container above.

type9 PlainTextPassword
type9 eM53DRPA3ClnY2 PlainTextPassword

Binaries

Currently binaries are not available. This may change in the future.