Oracle Exadata leaf switch logins

[larry0@xxxxxx]

Hello,

While evaluating our exadata 1/4 rack I noticed the following issues.


Oracle Exadata leaf switch logins

From Oracle.com "Oracle Exadata is the only database machine that provides 
extreme performance for both data warehousing and OLTP applications, making it 
the ideal platform for consolidating on private clouds. It is a complete 
package of servers, storage, networking, and software that is massively 
scalable, secure, and redundant. With Oracle Exadata customers can reduce IT 
costs through consolidation, store up to ten times more data, improve 
performance of all applications, deliver a faster time-to-market by eliminating 
systems integration trial and error, and make better business decisions in real 
time."

http://www.oracle.com/us/products/database/exadata/overview/index.html

The oracle engineered solution contains two leaf switches and in larger 
installations a spine switch. The installation I worked with didn't have a 
spine switch, but the two leaf switches were configured with three logins with 
easily guessable passwords and a shadow file that was world readable.

There are three accounts with easily guessable default passwords on the exadata 
inifiniband switches:

ilom-admin,ilom-operator and nm2user.
passwords are same as logins
rux0r:~ meep0$ ssh ilom-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx "cat /conf/shadow"

The shadow file is world readable:

[root@exad-1swib2 ~]# ls -l /conf/shadow -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 749 Dec 23 2011 
/conf/shadow

Vendor: notified 3/12/2012

Oracle pointed me at a doc stating you should rotate these passwords after 
installation (as far as I recall these engineer solutions are 
configured/installed by them onsite.). They also weren't concerned about the 
lax permissions of /etc/shadow.

Larry W. Cashdollar
http://vapid.dhs.org
@_larry0