nvt9001@belvoir-emh3.army.mil (DoN Nichols) (01/08/90)
Thanks to those following for suggestions in trying to get into a tektronix 6130 running UTek (BSD4.2 + ?). (I'm not sure at this point in time, but I believe that some of those were from articles being quoted by one or more of those helping.) > From: Jeff Dickson <jdickson@jpl-mil.Jpl.Nasa.Gov> > From: Donald Becker <becker@trantor.harris-atd.com> > From: Maarten Litmaath <maart@cs.vu.nl> > From: Dan Bernstein <bernsten@phoenix.princeton.edu> > From: Will Dickson <will%robots.oxford.ac.uk@nss.cs.ucl.ac.uk> > From: Terry Slattery (SECAD) <tcs@BRL.MIL> > From: Keith D Gregory <keith@fstohp.lynn.ge.com> I finally got in! The sugestions were very interesting and thought-provoking (since I keep one of my systems set up to answer a modem - hosting a bbs dealing with traditional music, dance, etc.) There is always something else on the system which one would want to protect. As it turned out, every hole pointed out had been closed by the system makers, or never opened (suid shell scripts for example). Some of them I knew about, others I didn't till now. The way I finally got in was to re-try the password file against /usr/dict/words, only this time, try the one in my old COSMOS system, which had been merged with one from another source. It was somewhat larger, but I didn't expect it to have too many words which weren't in the first, especially when trimmed to the length of a valid password. To my great supprise and joy, it did have the word needed. It was 'gnomes', not even mixed-case! The system has now joined my cluster of unix boxen at home. One example each of the three major branches of unix. Version 7 (COSMOS-CMS16/UNX), System V (AT&T 7300 UNIX-PC), and now BSD (4.2) - the tektronix 6130. Thanks to all Don Nichols (DoN.) <nvt9001@belvoir-emh3.army.mil>