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> Most web page access, odd-statistics gathering, and ease-of-use > tools with which I am familiar use ^expect^ to implement such. One such example would be MCI's "pollem", available at ftp://ftp.mci.net/outgoing/pollem "pollem" is a perl script that will log into a Cisco, pull a copy of the on-line config, and compare it with a previously pulled config (for things like network audits, etc). It can be changed to execute any command that the logged in user has privledge for. http://www.security.mci.net/dostrack ================================================================ Dale Drew MCI Telecommunications Sr. Manager internetMCI Security Engineering Voice: 703/715-7058 Internet: [email protected] Fax: 703/715-7066 MCIMAIL: Dale_Drew/644-3335 At 12:50 PM 10/25/97 -0400, Alan Hannan wrote: > > It's my opinion first and foremost that you are not a moron. > > Moreover, and keeping with the operational charter of the newsgroup, I > would not recommend that folks enable r* commands on their cisco > routers. > > When automated access is required, automating access with stored > passwords can be done quite handily. > > While one must focus on protecting the sanctity of the stored > passwords, one doesn't have to focus on the security of forged r* > logins. Protecting something within a host, rather than a network > segment, is probably simpler in this case than the converse. > > $0.02. > > Most web page access, odd-statistics gathering, and ease-of-use > tools with which I am familiar use ^expect^ to implement such. > > -alan > >Quoting Alex Rubenstein ([email protected]): >> >> I am a moron; I can't figure it out. >> >> How do you make a cisco so that you can rsh into it (to use Mr. Kerns >> looking glass)? >> >> TIA> >> >> > >
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