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Re: Default Passwords for World Wide Packets/Lightning Edge Equipment
From: "Ricky Beam" <jfbeam () gmail com>
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 2010 00:58:26 -0500
On Wed, 06 Jan 2010 18:24:26 -0500, Jeffrey I. Schiller <jis () mit edu> wrote:
An option I saw years ago (I forgot on whose equipment) was a default password which was a function of the equipment's serial number. So you had to have the algorithm and you needed the serial number which was not related to the MAC. So if you didn't have physical access, you were not in a good position to learn the password.
Gadzoox used to do that... the management modules for their hubs had factory set random passwords. It's provided on a sticker with the card, so you can put it where you want -- just don't lose it, because that's only place it exists (without breaking out a JTAG debugger.)
Yes, their later gear has standard default passwords. --Ricky
Current thread:
- RE: Default Passwords for World Wide Packets/Lightning Edge Equipment, (continued)
- RE: Default Passwords for World Wide Packets/Lightning Edge Equipment George Bonser (Jan 06)
- Re: Default Passwords for World Wide Packets/Lightning Edge Equipment Sean Donelan (Jan 07)
- RE: Default Passwords for World Wide Packets/Lightning Edge Equipment Jason Shearer (Jan 07)
- Re: Default Passwords for World Wide Packets/Lightning Edge Equipment Joe Hamelin (Jan 06)
- Re: Default Passwords for World Wide Packets/Lightning Edge Equipment Joe Greco (Jan 06)
- Re: Default Passwords for World Wide Packets/Lightning Edge Equipment Matthew Palmer (Jan 06)
- Re: Default Passwords for World Wide Packets/Lightning Edge Equipment Joe Greco (Jan 06)
- RE: Default Passwords for World Wide Packets/Lightning Edge Equipment Nathan Eisenberg (Jan 07)
- Re: Default Passwords for World Wide Packets/Lightning Edge Equipment Steven Bellovin (Jan 07)
- Re: Default Passwords for World Wide Packets/Lightning Edge Equipment Bjørn Mork (Jan 07)
- Re: Default Passwords for World Wide Packets/Lightning Edge Equipment Ricky Beam (Jan 07)