Re: SNMP Enabled on Dell Servers

["Barry McGeorge" <yodatjm () mediaone net>]

I'm running a Dell PowerEdge 2500 and while SNMP is running by default, my
community string is PUBLIC with READ ONLY.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Will Backman" <whb () ceimaine org>
To: <bugtraq () securityfocus com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2002 3:15 PM
Subject: SNMP Enabled on Dell Servers


> While Microsoft says that SNMP is NOT enabled on any version of Windows,
> my new Dell PowerEdge with Win2000SP2 came with it installed and
> running.  Besides the current exploits, it uses the stupid defaults that
> NT4.0 has, which is a community string of PUBLIC with READ-CREATE.
>
> I figure the new holes in SNMP will case a lot of scanning for the
> service, and there may be a lot of folks who do not realize that the
> vendor might have installed it and turned it on in the OEM media.
>
> Will Backman
> Network Administrator