RE: [cobalt-users] procmail and other GPL source...

["Sean Slavin" <sslavin@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

i hate to beat this any more but i'm still confused... i'm a software
engineer and i know about building back doors. the only way i can use a
back door is to know how to get to the machine. if the machine is
blocked by a firewall then it's not visible to the outside world. yes
the firewall will have a mapped IP and port 80 open but a smart admin
will have inbound traffic on that port blocked. i spose if your users
are given shell access, then cobalt could telnet in as well but then
they would have had to bury a login somewhere and you could probably
find that by looking long enough.

well, i'll leave this alone now and go take a peek thru the archives and
see if i can get un-confused...

8)
sean

-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Kriwitsky [mailto:webhosting@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 1:34 PM
To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [cobalt-users] procmail and other GPL source...


> 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.
--
Dan Kriwitsky


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