[120943] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Default Passwords for World Wide Packets/Lightning Edge Equipment
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Burwell)
Wed Jan 6 14:13:12 2010
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 2010 11:12:29 -0800
From: Jim Burwell <jimb@jsbc.cc>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <E0A5B752-24CE-4FF6-B44D-578A939D6EC2@arbor.net>
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On 1/6/2010 01:23, Dobbins, Roland wrote:
> On Jan 6, 2010, at 4:18 PM, Matthew Palmer wrote:
>
>
>> The closest I can come to a solution is to set a random password and flash it using a front-panel LED using morse. <grin>
>>
> heh
>
> No password at all, operator prompted at the console during startup unless/until he sets one. No IP address, et. al. until a password is set.
>
Yeah. And for devices with no console, only network interfaces, a
default IP address, no default password, and no default route (just in
case they plug it into a real LAN instead of a laptop. :p ).
