This article was posted to the Usenet group alt.hackers in
1995; any technical information is probably outdated.
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Re: Hacked AIX 3
Article: 8815 of alt.hackers Newsgroups: alt.hackers From: ricochet@netcom.com (Ricochet) Subject: Re: Hacked AIX 3 Message-ID: ricochetDG5ynu.KBJ@netcom.com Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest) X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL1] Date: Mon, 9 Oct 1995 04:19:05 GMT Approved: By captain janeway herself... Lines: 31 Sender: ricochet@netcom.netcom.com Status: RO
root (root@I_should_put_my_domain_in_etc_NNTP_INEWS_DOMAIN) wrote: : Well, after quite some time trying to hack into my Uni's main computer (a : RISC 6000 running AIX 3.2), I finally did it!. How? ok. Can you imagine this : incompetent administrator who hasn't yet patched that old "rlogin -l -froot ..." : bug in AIX 3? Je, Je. Bottomline: Don't hesitate to try those GOLTS (Good Old : Tricks), you might be amazed about how many lamer-Sysops are out-there... <RANT> Please post this garbage to alt.crackers, and keep it out of here. That goes for playing redbox tones into a pay phone. That is not a hack, that is reading a 15 year old document and doing what it says. Please, if you want to get free calls from a pay phone or break into systems maliciously or otherwise, check out alt.2600 or alt.crackers or alt.hackers.malicious or something. You'll be much happier there. </RANT> OBhack: Netcom automagically pipes any login to "netcom.com" to the machine it believes has the least load at the time... being an untrusting soul, I wrote a Perl script to ping netcom1 through 23 and reformat the results into a one-screen table from which I can choose a machine that looks like it's got the best connection to where I currently am. Works great. OB-future-hack: Setting up tables of related machines (mirrors sites) to choose the best machine from which to FTP new stuff, using a modified version of the above script. -- anthony "ric" kilna ricochet@netcom.com [ Home Page : http://www.webcom.com/ricochet ] [ InSoc : http://www.webcom.com/ricochet/insoc ] [ Anything Box : http://www.webcom.com/ricochet/anythingbox ]
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