Remove “This incident will be reported.” from user warnings

Post by ww520 » Sun, Apr 30, 2023, 12:28 AM UTC

mingus88 wrote: post #165

ww520 wrote: post #143

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There's the talk command on Unix. We used to do a 'who' to find out who're on the system and 'talk' to them.

That was such a mind blowing experience coming from a DOS background. It would split your terminal horizontally and you could see each other type in real time. Before the days of SMS, and even before the days of instant messengers like ICQ and AIM, I taught the split-screen `talk` command to my girlfriend so we could chat while I was working. We've been married for 20 years now.

Post by Aeolun » Sun, Apr 30, 2023, 1:01 AM UTC

NoZebra120vClip wrote: post #172

Alright, did I tell my college sysadmin story already? This is the perfect place to drop it. 1990, freshman in college, Pascal class on AT&T Unix SVR3 3B2 cluster named "earth", "wind", and "fire". We'd just learned our way around "vi" and how to "uvapc" our Pascal source into a.out. I discovered anonymous ftp, and "make", and I quickly rose to become the gaming king of Pascal class. I had ularn, nethack, megs and me…

Post by ww520 » Sun, Apr 30, 2023, 1:03 AM UTC

doctor_eval wrote: post #148

ww520 wrote: post #139

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Speaking of interaction with the admin. Back in the days when I was in school, the computer lab ran a Honeywell mainframe with terminals. I wrote a program emulating the logon screen to intercept the username and password of the unsuspecting students logging on and to email them to me. I was going to post the list of all the usernames and passwords at the end of the semester on the wall. I dubbed it the Fishing proje…

That’s quite similar to my story. While at high school, I wrote an innocent program to open the terminals at the nearby college for chat sessions - nothing nefarious. The sysadm saw what I did and realised I could use it to phish passwords. Next time I went to use the computer lab, the terminals were locked down. Showing my age but this would have been 1984 or so… a remarkably early contribution to security?

Post by gwerbret » Sun, Apr 30, 2023, 1:05 AM UTC

ww520 wrote: post #181

mingus88 wrote: post #165

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That was such a mind blowing experience coming from a DOS background. It would split your terminal horizontally and you could see each other type in real time. Before the days of SMS, and even before the days of instant messengers like ICQ and AIM, I taught the split-screen `talk` command to my girlfriend so we could chat while I was working. We've been married for 20 years now.

The one program truly blew my mind at the time was Netrek - the first networked multi-player realtime graphical space fighting game. I've wasted so much time late into the nights playing the game in the lab instead of doing coursework. The admin came to the lab from time to time and said we're hogging the workstations with the game and banned the game during daytime.

Post by judge2020 » Sun, Apr 30, 2023, 1:09 AM UTC

Aeolun wrote: post #183

NoZebra120vClip wrote: post #172

Alright, did I tell my college sysadmin story already? This is the perfect place to drop it. 1990, freshman in college, Pascal class on AT&T Unix SVR3 3B2 cluster named "earth", "wind", and "fire". We'd just learned our way around "vi" and how to "uvapc" our Pascal source into a.out. I discovered anonymous ftp, and "make", and I quickly rose to become the gaming king of Pascal class. I had ularn, nethack, megs and me…

So did you have root access? I can’t figure out if you attempt to su all the system accounts worked or not.