How to use the MD5-PW auth scheme in my mntner ?
• Pick a passphrase – there is some advice on choosing a good passphrase E.g. “@ v3ri $3>|rit P@55Frais” has the mnemonic “a very secret passphrase”, is relatively long, and contains a mix of non-alphabetic characters. • Go to the Crypt CGI Interface at: (https://www.ripe.net/cgi-bin/crypt.cgi ) and convert the password to MD5-PW. E.g. “@ v3ri $3>|rit P@55Frais” converts to “$1$HaKpJ.7L$bMelWa6qPZJn9ZTn7dphr/”. The encrypted password is not always the same for the same starting password. • Modify your mntner object to add a line that starts with “auth: MD5-PW”, followed by a space and the encrypted password from step 2. E.g. a maintainer would become: mntner: EXAMPLE-MNT descr: Sample maintainer for example. … auth: MD5-PW $1$HaKpJ.7L$bMelWa6qPZJn9ZTn7dphr/ … source: RIPE • Send the maintainer as a plain text e-mail to auto-dbm@ripe.net. • You will receive an automatic reply from the RIPE Database when the update is complete. If successful, you can use the password authentication.
To use MD5-PW, do the following: • Pick a passphrase – there is some advice on choosing a good passphrase E.g. “@ v3ri $3>|rit P@55Frais” has the mnemonic “a very secret passphrase”, is relatively long, and contains a mix of non-alphabetic characters. • Go to the Crypt CGI Interface at: (https://www.ripe.net/cgi-bin/crypt.cgi ) and convert the password to MD5-PW. E.g. “@ v3ri $3>|rit P@55Frais” converts to “$1$HaKpJ.7L$bMelWa6qPZJn9ZTn7dphr/”. The encrypted password is not always the same for the same starting password. • Modify your mntner object to add a line that starts with “auth: MD5-PW”, followed by a space and the encrypted password from step 2. E.g. a maintainer would become: mntner: EXAMPLE-MNT descr: Sample maintainer for example. … auth: MD5-PW $1$HaKpJ.7L$bMelWa6qPZJn9ZTn7dphr/ … source: RIPE • Send the maintainer as a plain text e-mail to auto-dbm@ripe.net. • You will receive an automatic reply from the RIPE Database when the update is complete. If successful, you can
