From: Arthur Krewat <krewat@kilonet.net>
To: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Recovered /etc/passwd files
Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2019 17:22:03 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8088e5bd-3530-d3e1-8066-db6ea9389dea@kilonet.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.1910090753420.52199@aneurin.horsfall.org>
On 10/8/2019 5:02 PM, Dave Horsfall wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Oct 2019, Arthur Krewat wrote:
>
>> Slightly off-topic, but still UUCP related. If a SunOS box NFS
>> exported /, and I could mount /, even without root NFS access, using
>> the uucp user, I could overwrite uucico because it was owned by uucp.
>> The entry in inetd.conf would automatically run uucico as root.
>> Telnet to the box on that port, and it would happily run whatever I
>> put in the uucico file.
>>
>> Bad joo-joo.
>
> *Cough cough* I remember that *cough cough*...
cough cough back at you, sir ;)
>
> Unix systems in those days were broken in subtle ways; we once broke
> into a Gould (marketed as the most secure box on the planet[*]) by
> social-engineering a marketoid (we tricked him into running a custom
> "ls" or something). "Thank you Sir, and we've just broken into your
> Gould; there's the root prompt".
I was able to social-engineer an operator a few times on TOPS-10 systems
back in the day to reset passwords, or mount disks. "Can you give me a
list of disks you have ready to mount?" - "blah blah blah" - "OK, mount
pack BLARG".
But then, one time, I was talking to an "operator" for a while before I
realized it was an ELIZA-like program that kept going back around in a
loop. Trying to be suave, I started it by asking how they were doing,
and got all sorts of weird responses.
At some point, realizing I was talking to a bot, I said: "I feel bad" -
and it replied something to the effect of "Can you explain why you feel
bad?". Typical ELIZA response ;)
Someone at that university had a sense of humor, that's for sure. Broke
into it anyway guessing passwords.
ak
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-10-08 21:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 63+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-10-08 18:38 Norman Wilson
2019-10-08 18:51 ` Arthur Krewat
2019-10-08 21:02 ` Dave Horsfall
2019-10-08 21:22 ` Arthur Krewat [this message]
2019-10-09 5:49 ` Nigel Williams
2019-10-09 5:52 ` Nigel Williams
2019-10-09 6:00 ` Warner Losh
2019-10-09 8:16 ` Andy Kosela
2019-10-09 8:53 ` Ken Thompson via TUHS
2019-10-09 9:16 ` Leah Neukirchen
2019-10-09 23:04 ` Dave Horsfall
2019-10-10 6:31 ` Vincenzo Nicosia
2019-10-09 19:59 ` Rob Pike
2019-10-09 20:09 ` Kurt H Maier
2019-10-09 21:05 ` Bakul Shah
2019-10-09 21:09 ` Warner Losh
2019-10-09 21:16 ` Arthur Krewat
2019-10-09 22:05 ` Adam Thornton
2019-10-09 23:28 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2019-10-11 12:28 ` Anthony Martin
2019-10-09 20:14 ` Arthur Krewat
2019-10-10 20:24 ` Clem Cole
2019-10-10 20:38 ` Nemo
2019-10-10 20:52 ` John P. Linderman
2019-10-11 6:24 ` Dave Horsfall
2019-10-11 11:09 ` William Pechter
2019-10-11 23:46 ` Finn O'Leary
2019-10-12 0:21 ` Arthur Krewat
2019-10-10 8:21 ` Dan Cross
2019-10-10 11:58 ` Arthur Krewat
2019-10-10 12:07 ` Leah Neukirchen
2019-10-18 14:34 ` Arthur Krewat
2019-10-18 15:01 ` Royce Williams
2019-10-18 15:05 ` Royce Williams
2019-10-18 18:32 ` Royce Williams
2019-10-19 13:11 ` John P. Linderman
2019-10-10 13:57 ` Henry Bent
2019-10-10 14:05 ` Arthur Krewat
2019-10-15 16:32 ` Michael Kjörling
2019-10-10 14:10 ` Leah Neukirchen
2019-10-11 2:49 ` Dave Horsfall
2019-10-08 20:52 ` Dave Horsfall
2019-10-08 21:15 ` Michael Kjörling
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2019-10-19 13:45 Norman Wilson
2019-10-19 20:27 ` ewe2
2019-10-19 20:41 ` Arthur Krewat
2019-10-03 18:51 Finn O'Leary
2019-10-03 19:30 ` Leah Neukirchen
2019-10-03 20:41 ` Finn O'Leary
2019-10-03 22:04 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2019-10-03 23:24 ` Dave Horsfall
2019-10-04 0:59 ` WIlliam Cheswick
2019-10-04 16:08 ` Arthur Krewat
2019-10-04 10:29 ` Leah Neukirchen
2019-10-04 15:05 ` Ken Thompson via TUHS
2019-10-05 18:05 ` Tom Jones
2019-10-08 17:38 ` Arthur Krewat
2019-10-08 20:40 ` Dave Horsfall
2019-10-08 20:57 ` Arthur Krewat
2019-10-09 12:55 ` Leah Neukirchen
2019-10-09 16:17 ` Arthur Krewat
2019-10-05 17:29 ` Michael Kjörling
2019-10-05 17:49 ` Arthur Krewat
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