things happen, people lose link, techs simply forget to
turn off debugging.
what the hell is the problem with setting it to default
to off upon opening a telnet session
On Sat, 18 Jul 1998, MegaZone wrote:
|Once upon a time Rick Smith shaped the electrons to say...
|>We've discovered a grave insecurity in ComOS*****
|
|No, you didn't. This has a been well known for years and years. The
|debugging interface is disassociated fom the telnet session. It is
|simple to avoid this - TURN DEBUGGING OFF. If you lose link, reconnect,
|'set console', 'set debug off', 'set debug 0x0'.
|
|Debugging is allowed to stream BY DESGIN - you can set console to point to
|any port. Like one with a printer on it, and start debugging and it will
|stream there - with no connection active on the port. It doesn't treat
|the telnet any different. The admin should be intelligent enough to
|turn things off.
|
|-MZ
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