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Re: (ASCEND) security hole in p50
On Tue, 9 Dec 1997, Brett Hawn wrote:
> This is only if you don't change the access in the security profile, its
> relatively simple to turn off if you pay attention to what your doing. I
> agree that its silly to have that as the default but... its ascend :)
> > The 3 levels of access are pointless because once you have the telnet password,
> > it allows you to go into diagnostic mode and dump the p50's config to a
> > tftp server, complete with all passwords for the unit....
It's actually a good idea. Most customers using pipelines for NAT don't
want to bother with all that security gobbledegook. Personally I think
there can't be enough security, but for ease of installation, Ascend's
stance on intital setup configuration security is good. It saves me a lot
of headaches.
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