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local password storage location in PA

MP18 — Thu, 13 Jun 2019 17:21:40 GMT

In PA the username is part of the running config or local config of the PA right?

Where does local database or local password stored in PA?

Re: local password storage location in PA

BPry — Thu, 13 Jun 2019 20:14:08 GMT

It's the phash value you can see when you look at the XML configuration. Anytime you supply your password the supplied password is hashed via the master key of the device and the hash is compared to the stored phash value.

Re: local password storage location in PA

MP18 — Thu, 13 Jun 2019 20:34:21 GMT

So does it mean location of this is in the XML file?

Re: local password storage location in PA

BPry — Thu, 13 Jun 2019 20:37:13 GMT

@MP18,

Right. It's stored directly in the configuration file and loaded into memory when the firewall loads the running-config.