On Wednesday 30 November 2005 17:52, Abhishek Daga wrote: > Couple of things to be taken care of when using The Best DSL > service in Mumbai. > > 1) Please change router password from default "admin". > By going into the router--->Status, I can get my router's IP > address.
The first thing u do with a new host / service is change ALL default passwords. > > If I keep trying the IPs directly in ascending or descending serial > order, sure enough I will reach other routers and where the default > password is admin. Not that I can gain anything out of it, U can rig the firewall rules to allow forwarding and gain access to the host. Hopefully people have a sane password + policy on the host to prevent access. > but can > fiddle around with the settings and make it difficult for the other > person. OR simply enable remote telnet management/web management > and try and exploit those. > Changing the admin password is a good first step. > > > 2) The login/password (phone number/CA number) will work from any > modem/location which has DSL enabled. Change the password from the ca number to something else. > Does it warrant sending it to the papers? I think not. With the number of clueless m$ users around u would have major problem. U are going to have a major problem anyway, but why precipitate it. rgds jtd -- http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
