It seemed like any other trip to the gas station. I walked in and saw the guy behind the counter. He gave me a nod and I gave him a nod back. I found the Dr. Pepper stack, which I noticed was exactly as I left it during my last visit and pulled a pair of twelve packs up. I walked to the counter and a line seemed to have formed. The old lady got her Benson and Hedges 100s, the kid behind her bought a Whatchamacallit (I had no idea they still made those) and then the guy who wanted lottery tickets stepped up to the plate. Up to…
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Those Pesky Firmware Passwords
The summer is upon us. Our users are watching videos like this one: While it’s actually way easier than what they show here, let’s look at stopping people from circumventing our admin goodness using the old school firmware password. Keep in mind, these passwords are somewhat easily reversible as they’re encrypted in a junior varsity way, so don’t use the same password that you use for anything else. To create our password in a script, we’re going to use EFIPW available http://code.google.com/p/efipw. Move the download to somewhere like /usr/local/bin folder. Then, to set the password to supah-secret: efipw_0.2b.py -p supah-secret -m command The client will now be in command mode,…