Intranet FTP up and running

[Zbigniew Koziol]

Tom Legrady wrote:


Dont be silly, boy.

These people have no idea what "security policy" means.

Shut up and go to play with your toys.

zb.


> 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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