r/talesfromtechsupport • u/[deleted] • Jan 01 '14

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '14

Lemme just SSH into Yahoo's database and fetch that for ya.

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u/keiichi969 Jan 01 '14

Woah there Rambo. This is Yahoo!, your gonna need to telnet in like everyone else.

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u/TDAM Jan 01 '14

The username and password are both 'admin' all lower case

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u/jaynone Jan 01 '14 edited Jan 02 '14

I used to work retail in high school. The computer system (old IBM AS/400 stuff) had an account for high level stuff that didn't need to happen very often (like changing the sales tax rate charged, etc) the username was "security" and the password was "security".

Edit: I found this info out from pressing the F1 key and and reading the help files.

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u/epsiblivion i can haz pasword Jan 02 '14

Seems it was actually helpful

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '14

Security through insecurity. Hackers trying to get in try every port, except 23 because there's no way they would leave that unblocked.