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Re: Warning: Cisco RW community backdoor.

  • From: jlewis
  • Date: Tue Feb 27 19:15:58 2001

On Mon, 26 Feb 2001, David Schwartz wrote:

> > While I agree that "public" and "private" are "wellknowns," in most
> > implementations, they at least show up in the code.  Cisco chose to hide
> > this one where it would not show up in the code.  That IMHO is a very bad
> > thing and does bad things to my confidence level in Cisco.
>
>     Do a "show snmp group" from an enabled console prompt. It does show.

On some routers that have the backdoor, "show snmp group" isn't even a
valid command.

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