[35105] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Warning: Cisco RW community backdoor.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Schwartz)
Tue Feb 27 00:02:00 2001
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From: "David Schwartz" <davids@webmaster.com>
To: "John Fraizer" <nanog@Overkill.EnterZone.Net>,
"Sean Donelan" <sean@donelan.com>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 20:42:27 -0800
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> 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
