Oracle Exadata leaf switch logins

[larry0 () me com]

Hello,

While evaluating our exadata 1/4 rack I noticed the following issues.


Oracle Exadata leaf switch logins

> From Oracle.com "Oracle Exadata is the only database machine that provides extreme performance for both data 
> warehousing and OLTP applications, making it the ideal platform for consolidating on private clouds. It is a complete 
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http://www.oracle.com/us/products/database/exadata/overview/index.html

The oracle engineered solution contains two leaf switches and in larger installations a spine switch. The installation 
I worked with didn't have a spine switch, but the two leaf switches were configured with three logins with easily 
guessable passwords and a shadow file that was world readable.

There are three accounts with easily guessable default passwords on the exadata inifiniband switches:

ilom-admin,ilom-operator and nm2user.
passwords are same as logins
rux0r:~ meep0$ ssh ilom-admin@192.168.0.113 "cat /conf/shadow"

The shadow file is world readable:

[root@exad-1swib2 ~]# ls -l /conf/shadow -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 749 Dec 23 2011 /conf/shadow

Vendor: notified 3/12/2012

Oracle pointed me at a doc stating you should rotate these passwords after installation (as far as I recall these 
engineer solutions are configured/installed by them onsite.). They also weren't concerned about the lax permissions of 
/etc/shadow.

Larry W. Cashdollar
http://vapid.dhs.org
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