[c-nsp] Change Pix passwds, without getting logged?

Terje Bless link at pobox.com
Fri Mar 24 18:17:47 EST 2006


Church, Chuck <cchurch at netcogov.com> wrote:

>Well, if someone had physical access to the Pix, they probably power
>cycled it, and did a password recovery.  A Pix with no power can't send
>any syslog messages :)  The standby came up and took over while the
>primary was in rommon and being recovered. 

Well, as best we can tell the physical security is ok. The console access is
through a Cyclades serial console server which was not secured.


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  enough rope to hang themselves,  but a boobytrapped thermonuclear weapon
  running on a rand(time) countdown… Is that really wise?   - Me to MS rep.


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