On Mon, Nov 10, 2025 at 12:29:35PM +0000, Leo Vandewoestijne via Bird-users wrote: > Hello, > > > > On a router with several sessions I use "cascading" templates. > Not all sessions have authentication, but those that do all default to MD5. > > When leaving the authentication option unset, you get warnings like: > > bird: /usr/local/etc/bird.conf:57:18: Missing authentication option, assuming > MD5 > > > > But when setting 'authentication md5;' in my main template, then sessions > without password will complain: > > bird: /usr/local/etc/bird.conf:56:28 MD5 authentication and password option > should be used together > /usr/local/etc/rc.d/bird: WARNING: failed to start bird > > > > In the past using a useless 'password "";' helped to simply surpress > warnings, but not anymore. > > > So now I have to add multiple templates to add 'authentication md5;' to > sessions with authentication. > > Long story short, my question is: > why can't you affirm 'authentication md5;' as main default, regardless wether > sessions do or don't have a password?
Hi See https://bird.network.cz/pipermail/bird-users/2025-August/018356.html -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Ondrej 'Santiago' Zajicek (email: [email protected]) "To err is human -- to blame it on a computer is even more so."
