Re: Warning: Cisco RW community backdoor.

[John Fraizer <nanog () Overkill EnterZone Net>]

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