From: "Ric Moore" <wayward4now@xxxxxxxxx>
On Sun, 2007-05-20 at 22:21 -0700, jdow wrote:
I accidentally (and I mean REALLY
accidentally) discovered a bug in their modem login code that some of
us used to login from home. It would not the user out of the connection
died. I discovered it by trying to get logged in and catching myself
in a co-worker's account. I looked around enough to figure out who then
logged out and told the IT folks about it the next day. They had the MOST
DELIGHTFUL "Oh Shit!" looks on their faces. (It was a facility that had a
DoD security clearance to maintain.)
The early Linux installs of getty did the same thing. (Before Uugetty) I
had that happen with the earlier version of GTE Telemail way before
that. At 2400 baud, you could wander around the entire site, poking into
the GM company emails and several nuclear sites without a password if
you managed to get in hitting return on name and passwd when you logged
in to catch a bad logoff session. The only thing I ever found notable
was am email from some GM exec who stated that "This email thing will
never catch on. This is what secretaries are for." He probably moved to
AMC and built the Gremlin.
Hit return once and it gave me the command prompt. Another time I ended
up in somebody's edit session, I suspect. He probably had a dozen
spurious return in his document. It was the second time that I got the
command prompt and figured out what was going on.
{^_-}
