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RE: [cobalt-users] procmail and other GPL source...
- Subject: RE: [cobalt-users] procmail and other GPL source...
- From: "Dan Kriwitsky" <webhosting@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed Jul 25 06:43:38 2001
- List-id: Mailing list for users to share thoughts on Cobalt products. <cobalt-users.list.cobalt.com>
> It is common for the developers of software to create a "back door" to
> access software in case of trouble or for convinent software service. It
> may be scary, but can be a preferred method of accessing a Cobalt device
> that has "locked" out eveyone else. Imangine being locked out of the box
> cause you reset the password, and you are 500 miles away from the server,
> and the co-lo folks have an absolute "hands-off" policy
> preventing the tech
> (if you can get to her) from using the front panel reset.
>
IIRC they use the MAC address somehow. I think it may have been discussed a
long time ago in the archives.
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Dan Kriwitsky