[35104] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Warning: Cisco RW community backdoor.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Fraizer)
Mon Feb 26 23:54:53 2001
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 23:40:11 -0500 (EST)
From: John Fraizer <nanog@Overkill.EnterZone.Net>
To: David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com>
Cc: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>, nanog@merit.edu
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On Mon, 26 Feb 2001, David Schwartz wrote:
>
> > While I agree that "public" and "private" are "wellknowns," in most
> > implementations, they at least show up in the code. Cisco chose to hide
> > this one where it would not show up in the code. That IMHO is a very bad
> > thing and does bad things to my confidence level in Cisco.
>
> Do a "show snmp group" from an enabled console prompt. It does show.
>
> DS
>
>
"sho run" does not show it however. It shows unconfigured interfaces. It
doesn't show Cisco backdoors though. Backdoor BAD. Cisco BAD. Beer
GOOD!
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John Fraizer
EnterZone, Inc
