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- ** HACKING DEC'S **
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- Welcome to Hacking DEC'S. In this article you
- will learn how to log in to DEC'S, logging out
- and all the fun stuff to do in-between. All of
- this information is based on a standard DEC
- system. Since there are DEC systems 10 and 20, &
- we favor the DEC 20, there will be more info on
- them in this article. It just so happens that the
- DEC 20 is also the more common of the two, and is
- used by much more interesting people (if you know
- what we mean...)
- Ok, the first thing you want to do when you are
- recieving carrier from a DEC system is to find
- out the format of login names. You can do this by
- looking at who is on the system.
- DEC=> @ (the 'exec' level prompt) YOU=> SY
- SY is short for SY(STAT) and shows you the system
- status. You should see the format of login names
- ... A SYSTAT usually comes up in this form:
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- JOB LINE PROGRAM NUMBER
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- Job: The JOB number (Not important unless you want
- to log them off later)
- Line: What line they are on (used to talk to them
- ...) (These are both two or three digit numbers.)
- Program: What program are they running under? If
- it says 'EXEC' they aren't doing anything at
- all...
- User: ahhhAHHHH! This is the user name they are
- logged in under... Copy the format, and hack
- yourself out a working code...
- Login format is as such:
- DEC=> @
- YOU=> login username password
- Username is the username in the format you saw
- above in the SYSTAT. After you hit the space bar
- after your username, it will stop echoing
- characters back to your screen. This is the
- password you are typing in... Remember, people
- usually use their name, their dog's name, the name
- of a favorite character in a book, or something
- like this. A few clever people have it set to a
- key cluster (qwerty or asdfg). PW's can be from 1
- to 8 characters long, anything after that is
- ignored.
-
- You are finally in...
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- It would be nice to have a little help, wouldn't
- it? Just type a ? or the word HELP, and it will
- give you a whole list of topics... Some handy
- characters for you to know would be the control
- keys, wouldn't it? Backspace on a DEC 20 is rub
- which is 255 on your ASCII chart. On the DEC 10
- it is CTRL-H. To abort a long listing or a
- program, CTRL-C works fine. Use CTRL-O to stop
- long output to the terminal. This is handy when
- playing a game, but you don't want to CTRL-C out.
- CTRL-T for the time. CTRL-U will kill the whole
- line you are typing at the moment. You may
- accidently run a program where the only way out is
- a CTRL-X, so keep that in reserve. CTRL-S to stop
- listing, CTRL-Q to continue on both systems.
- Is your terminal having trouble?? Like, it pauses
- for no reason, or it doesn't backspace right?
-
- This is because both systems support many
- terminals, and you haven't told it what yours is
- yet... You are using a VT05 (Isn't that funny? I
- thought I had an apple) so you need to tell it you
- are one.
- DEC=> @
- YOU=> information terminal
- or... YOU=> info ter
- This shows you what your terminal is set up as...
- DEC=> all sorts of shit, then the @
- YOU=> set to vt05
- This sets your terminal type to VT05. Now lets
- see what is in the account (here after abbreviated
- acct.) that you have hacked onto...
- SAT=> DIR
- Short for directory, it shows you what the user of
- the code has saved to the disk. There should be a
- format like this:
- xxxxx.ooo
- xxxxx is the file name, from 1 to 20 characters
- long. ooo is the file type, one of: exe, txt,
- dat, bas, cmd and a few others that are system
- dependant. Exe is a compiled program that can be
- run (just by typing its name at the @). Txt is a
- text file, which you can see by typing=> type
- xxxxx.txt. Do not try to=> type xxxxx.exe This
- is very bad for your and will tell you absolutely
- nothing. Dat is data they have saved. Bas is a
- basic program, you can have it typed out for you.
- Cmd is a command type file, a little too
- complicated to go to into here. TRY => take
- xxxxx.cmd. By the way, there are other users out
- there who may have files you can use (Gee, why
- else am I here?).
- TYPE => DIR <*.*> DEC 20
- => DIR [*,*] DEC 10
- * is a wildcard, and will allow you to access the
- files on other accounts if the user has it set for
- public access. If it isn't set for public access,
- then yo won't see it. To run that program:
- DEC=> @
- YOU=> username program-name
- Username is the directory you saw the file listed
- under, and file name was what else but the file
- name?
-
- ** YOU ARE NOT ALONE **
-
- Remeber, you said (at the very start) SY short
- for SYSTAT, and how we said this showed the other
- users on the system? Well, you can talk to them,
- or at least send a message to anyone you see
- listed in a SYSTAT. You can do this by:
- DEC => the user list (from your systat)
- YOU => talk username (DEC 20)
- send username (DEC 10)
- Talk allows you and them immediate transmission of
- whatever you/they type to be sent to the other.
- Send only allows one message to be sent, and only
- after you hit <return>. With send, they will send
- back to you, with talk you can just keep going.
-
- By the way, you may be noticing with the talk
- command that what you type is still acted upon by
- the parser (control program). To avoid the
- constant error messages type either:
- YOU=> ;you message
- YOU=> rem
- your message
- The semi-colon tells the parser that what follows
- is just a comment. Rem is short for 'remark' and
- ignores you from then on until you type a CTRL-Z
- or CTRL-C, at which point it puts you back in the
- exec mode. To break the connection from a talk
- command type:
- YOU=> break
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- PRIV'S:
-
- If you happen to have privs, you can do all sorts
- of things. First of all, you have to activate
- those privs.
- YOU => enable
- This gives you a $ prompt, and allows you to do
- this: Whatever you can do to your own directory
- you can now do to any other directory.
-
- To create a new acct. using your privs, just type
- => build username. If username is old, you can
- edit it, if it is new, you can define it to be
- whatever you wish.
-
- Privacy means nothing to a user with privs. By
- the way, there are various levels of privs;
- Operator, Wheel, CIA. Wheel is the most powerful,
- being that he can log in from anywhere and have
- his powers. Operators have their power because
- they are at a special terminal allowing them the
- privs. CIA is short for 'Confidential Information
- Access', which allows you a low level amount of
- privs. Not to worry though, since you can read
- the system log file, which also has the passwords
- to all the other accounts. To de-activate your
- privs, type:
- YOU=> disable
-
- When you have played your greedy little heart out,
- you can finally leave the system with the command
- => logout
- This logs the job you are using off the system
- (there are be variants of this such as kjob, or
- killjob). By the way, you can say (if you have
- privs)
- => logout username
- and that kills the username's terminal.
-
- There are many more commands, so try them out.
- Just remember: Leave the account in the same state
- as you found it. This way they may never know
- that you are playing leech off their acct.
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- This article written by:
- The Knights of Shadow
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