Fred de Jonge | Cisco ASA – How to View pre-shared keys in plain text (2024)

15 thoughts on “Cisco ASA – How to View pre-shared keys in plain text”

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   Angelo

   1 March 2010 at 23:33

   or browse to https://x.x.x.x/config, that will show the config with the psk’s as well 😉

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   1. 

      Shahid

      8 December 2010 at 02:11

      Try command ‘more system:running-config’
      check this: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/vpndevc/ps2030/products_tech_note09186a00807f2d37.shtml

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      1. 

         salim

         17 September 2018 at 09:05

         It is working, thanks bro.

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      Nandakumar Rajasekaran

      13 April 2016 at 11:10

      Than you so much.its working fine.

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   3. 

      Kurt

      11 May 2016 at 14:08

      You need to use: https://x.x.x.x/admin/config

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   NWSP

   25 July 2011 at 04:41

   Thanks Angelo this works 🙂

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   JS

   20 September 2011 at 18:00

   Thanks

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   JB

   27 April 2012 at 17:28

   This is an old post, but you can also write the config to tftp and the save config file will show the PSK as well

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5. 

   lele

   25 March 2013 at 13:19

   in the context how i see the pre-shared key ?
   the commad more system:running-config it’not present in the context but is present in system

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   1. 

      Fred

      25 March 2013 at 13:21

      if you do “more system:running-config” all encrypted password ( except the ones of the users and encrypted secret password ) are shown in configuration file.
      Pre-shared key is normally in the show running-config showed with *****

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   lele

   25 March 2013 at 15:48

   you do “more system:running-config” it not prensent when i type in the context

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   1. 

      Fred

      25 March 2013 at 16:31

      You have to be in the enable mode. ( which ASA software version are you running? ) ciscoasa#more system:running-config

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   2. 

      Mark

      13 December 2013 at 16:48

      To view the complete config of a context (including PSK’s) you have to be in the system context (“changeto context system” if you’re not already there) and do a “more disk0:/.cfg. For instance, to view the whole admin context config the command would be “more disk0:/admin.cfg”.

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7. 

   Aswath

   17 August 2016 at 15:36

   Thank you

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   David

   6 November 2017 at 18:08

   Thank you, very good. Excelent.

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