Re: Cognos Default Username and password

From: pagvac (unknown.pentester@gmail.com)
Date: Tue Mar 07 2006 - 16:42:35 EST


On 3/7/06, 3 shool <3shool@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Also use common sense password guessing. i.e.:
> >
> > cognos/cognos
>
> This one seems to be working. When I give the above credentials the
> system takes me in but then gives the following error:
>
> You are not permitted to access the application at this time.
>
> CAM-AAA-0096 Unable to authenticate because the account can not be accessed.

I can think of 2 possibilities in this scenario:

- there is a policy enabled which restricts what time you can access
the application. Have you tried the valid credentials at a different
time?
- the default credentials are enabled from factory *but* the admin disabled them

After googling "CAM-AAA-0096" I found a post that seems to support the
2nd possibility (as I said, research *is* the key):

http://64.233.179.104/search?q=cache:eDucMYWXelMJ:www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm%3Fqid%3D1046513%26page%3D14+CAM-AAA-0096&hl=en&gl=uk&ct=clnk&cd=1&client=firefox-a

I'm sorry I can't help you any further, but it's a bit hard if I can't
actually test the application myself.

Maybe other testers from this forum have any thoughts on this?

All the best,
pagvac

>
> I tried the other combinations that you listed but only cognos/cognos
> is going in.
>
> May be the user is blocked by the application?
>

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