[kwlug-disc] Supermicro board

William Park opengeometry at yahoo.ca
Thu Aug 7 14:08:42 EDT 2014


On Thu, Aug 07, 2014 at 10:35:48AM -0400, L.D. Paniak wrote:
> If you have a network connection to a BMC, you have console access to
> that system.  Just be sure to lock it down appropriately eg. :
> http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/06/at-least-32000-servers-broadcast-admin-passwords-in-the-clear-advisory-warns/

The example in the link uses 'nc 49152' (netcat), from which I assume
BMC has its own commands.  But, 
    - how do lock down port 49152 from OS, when it's under "BIOS"
      control?  And,
    - how you tell OS not to use port 49152 (because it's used by
      "BIOS")?
-- 
William





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