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Admin rights via backdoors

Subject: Admin rights via backdoors
Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2007 18:02:22 +0400
Hi Guys

I do understand the risks of seeing open ports on servers using nmap/nessus but need to demonstrate a concept to my managers, the need for segregating software developers and production environments, especially pertaining to an financial application being built in-house.

I maintain that getting admin rights into an application while bypassing logical access controls flowing down from Active directory or OS level is trivial for a programmer if he hard codes some backdoor entry ports replete with usernames and passwords. They disagree that if they have no AD rights granted on the resource (different AD domains / filers etc), there is no reason to physically isolate developers from production.

Is my contention conceptually correct? How can I demonstrate this with a dummy application?

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