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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



  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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