Are you still using the Default Admin password on every copier you install?
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Re: Are you still using the Default Admin password on every copier you install?
The company I worked for provided a company email for each employee. He also required that we all use the same password. Since everyone had to remember that password, we also used it as the admin password for every machine we unboxed unless the customer or their IT provided one in writing in advanced.
Also at one time before we had our own webpage there was one Ricoh tech that always used the Model number as the password such as DSc328.Comment
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Re: Are you still using the Default Admin password on every copier you install?
The company I worked for provided a company email for each employee. He also required that we all use the same password. Since everyone had to remember that password, we also used it as the admin password for every machine we unboxed unless the customer or their IT provided one in writing in advanced.
Also at one time before we had our own webpage there was one Ricoh tech that always used the Model number as the password such as DSc328.Comment
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Re: Are you still using the Default Admin password on every copier you install?
... so how did you store and retrieve 100s of unique passwords?
I am aware of the California law requiring all IOT (Internet of Things) devices to be programmed upon first install away from the default password. I am not aware that this law was enacted anywhere else.Comment
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Re: Are you still using the Default Admin password on every copier you install?
... so how did you store and retrieve 100s of unique passwords?
I am aware of the California law requiring all IOT (Internet of Things) devices to be programmed upon first install away from the default password. I am not aware that this law was enacted anywhere else.
Use the serial number.Adversity temporarily visits a strong man but stays with the weak for a lifetime.Comment
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Re: Are you still using the Default Admin password on every copier you install?
Yes, you could use the credentials from the machine's op panel, but at that point you're not getting very far since the machines can only talk to two internal servers, and those are configured using Windows authentication which isn't directly accessible from either the web interface or the machine itself.
It all depends on how granular you want to get, and even in smaller environments we may set up different admin accounts for different functions.
Overall, we definitely do NOT use the default passwords on any MFP. We will set one just for our staff for customer machines so that there is a fallback if they forget their password, but only two of our staff have access to those, and if it gets used for a specific machine, we will change it on the next service visit.Comment
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Re: Are you still using the Default Admin password on every copier you install?
... so how did you store and retrieve 100s of unique passwords?
I am aware of the California law requiring all IOT (Internet of Things) devices to be programmed upon first install away from the default password. I am not aware that this law was enacted anywhere else.A tree is known by its fruit, a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost, he who sows courtesy, reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.
Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves, for they shall never cease to be amused.Comment
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Re: Are you still using the Default Admin password on every copier you install?
I like this idea. Use the last four-six digits of the copier's serial #. It is always on the copier somewhere but there is no way a hacker could know it unless they are physically near the copier.Comment
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Re: Are you still using the Default Admin password on every copier you install?
On Ricoh for example you can view the serial number BEFORE logging in!
Not sure about other manufacturers.
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Re: Are you still using the Default Admin password on every copier you install?
Full credit goes to KYO for the serial number idea. It was in the attachment that he posted.Adversity temporarily visits a strong man but stays with the weak for a lifetime.Comment
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Re: Are you still using the Default Admin password on every copier you install?
If that were the case then every Windows 10 computer sold in California is in violation.Comment
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Re: Are you still using the Default Admin password on every copier you install?
This entire discussion is moot at least for Ricoh. With as many people that have openly posted certain proprietary information here, any hacker in the world would have ne problem resetting the passwords to default.Comment
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Re: Are you still using the Default Admin password on every copier you install?
Not on a Toshiba but excellent point! This assumes that a hacker knows the IP address of the copier.Comment
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