While troubleshooting a VPN connection I wanted to confirm that the pre-shared key is identical on both ends. In order to do so I used a cool, relatively unknown command that allow you to recover the pre-shared key: more system:running-config Using the more system:running-config command result in clear text pre-shared key: tunnel-group tunnel_name ipsec-attributes pre-shared-key [...]

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