[geeks] snmp vunerabilities

Rob rstaab at panix.com
Wed Feb 13 18:31:31 CST 2002


Join the club. I've been out for 4 months now. I've pretty much gotten to
expect the everpresent, "I'm sorry, you're overqualified." Meanwhile, the
stupid momo's of the world have jobs and are fucking everything up. *SIGH*
Maybe it IS a good time to go back and finish my degree.

- Rob

On Wed, 13 Feb 2002, Kris Kirby wrote:

> On Wed, 13 Feb 2002, Fogg, James wrote:
> > Dude, I agree. However, we must admit that there are far too many weinies
> > calling themselves "network people". I cannot count how many times I have
> > seen SNMP enabled in network gear when there was no SNMP monitoring
> > happening. Worse, Most NetWeinies don't realize that the community names
> > (strings) are PASSWORDS! Most routers/etc. get snmp configured with the
> > default read-only string of "public" and read-write string of "private".
>
> It pisses me off to no end that netweenies have jobs and I do not. I can
> pass muster, but netweenies can kiss ass to get in the door. I can't find
> the ass to kiss.
>
> --
> Kris Kirby, KE4AHR          | TGIFreeBSD... 'Nuff said.
> <kris at nospam.catonic.net>   | IM: KrisBSD | HSV, AL.
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