Re: Default Passwords for World Wide Packets/Lightning Edge Equipment

[Matt Simmons <standalone.sysadmin () gmail com>]

That would be excellent for both the administrator, and anyone walking
down the row with a wand in their pocket.

On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 12:21 PM, Barry Shein <bzs () world std com> wrote:
> On January 12, 2010 at 23:03 Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu (Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu) wrote:
>  > On Tue, 12 Jan 2010 17:50:37 PST, Bill Stewart said:
>  > > A password recovery method I've found very frustrating is to use the
>  > > serial number or similar value that's on a label on the bottom of the
>  > > equipment.
>  >
>  > Related pet peeve:  Inventory and asset control people that stick a sticker on
>  > hardware and then expect to be able to scan the barcode at a later date. Works
>  > fine if the barcode sticker actually ends up facing the front or the back of
>  > the rack.  But occasionally, the sticker ends up stuck on an empty space on the
>  > printed circuit board of a upgrade blade that's plugged into a chassis...
>  >
>
> Sounds like RFID FTW!
>
> Actually, I have no idea if it'd work, maybe someone else does. Seems
> like it'd be nice to be able to just wand a rack and poof out comes a
> list of everything in it.
>
>
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