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
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