Intranet FTP up and running

Tom Legrady legrady-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org
Sat Dec 10 23:49:37 UTC 2005


This strikes me as an effective way to join Randal Schwartz in ther  
category of "convicted criminal". You may have a good reason for what  
you are doing, it may even be essential to the company's future well- 
being, but if you are circumventing security policy and using  
unauthorized methods to access systems you have not explicitly been  
authorized to access, you are asking for trouble.

Tom

On 10-Dec-05, at 2:16 PM, Zbigniew Koziol wrote:

> Paul King wrote:
>> Thanks to all who helped out.
>> It turns out that there may have been a problem in configuring the
>> router. Since I can't seem to find the manual to reset it and get the
>> preconfigured username and password I am now using a newer router  
>> I had
>> lying around waiting to be used.
>
> It is, usually, possible to find standard, factory set usernames  
> and passwords by using google. Many would be surprised by learning  
> how many companies use them ;) Once I had a problem while working  
> for one company: I wanted to connect with the outside world by  
> using SSH. Well, there was no way to get out: the router blocked  
> port 22. I wanted to change its configuration but the response was:  
> what for do you need it? ;) Well.. after some thinking about the  
> situation I decided to not bother them anymore: just found out the  
> factory set password and did changes...
>
>> Paul King
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