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Hacking the Dec-10 system



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Part I: Logging In, and simple cmds.

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  Welcome to Hacking Dec 10's!



 There is one way to recognize a Dec-10, you will get the "." prompt. First

there will be a little login message, sort of like a login on a BBS. For

example-



NIH Timesharing



NIH Tri-SMP 7.02-FF  19:57:11 TTY12

system 1378/1381/1453 Connected to Node Happy(40) Line # 13

Please LOGIN

.



 Now, you've gotten so far that you have found a Dec (Digital Equipment Corp),

you will need to know the format of the login.



[Login format]



 The users have numbers called PPN's which stands for "Project/Program Number".

The format of a PPN number is [X,X]. The first number is the the Project number

and the second is the Program Number.



ie-



.Log 12,34



 Job 64 NIH 7.01 KL 64-UC TTY12

Password:



 The password can range from 1-8 characters long, it may contain numbers,

initials, or something of the sort. Try and think, if I were a user what would

my password be. I doubt that method would work but it's worth a try.



 Now say this is your very first time on a Dec 10 system. Now if you want to

see some information about the system and some commands you may want to type-



.Help



 This will tell a little more about the system you are on. It will tell you how

to get information on a specific topic. It may also give you the number to

their voice dial-up just in case your having trouble.

 Now the dial-up (voice) may help you if your good in BS'ing. Usually the Help

command will tell you to consult your 'Dec 10-system guide' for more

information.



  Now say you want a list of commands to execute. You can type-

.Help *



 You will then get the following commands-  Which are too many to type in but

you will recognize them when you type Help *.



 Now after it shows all the commands it will then tell you how to login. It

will not give you a demo account, but will give you an example login.



 It will say something like, "The Login command is used for accessing the

Decsystem-10 timesharing system."



  To login please enter your project,programmer number pair.



 LOGIN XXX,XXXX



 The system will prompt you for your password. If your PPN or password is

wrong you will then be prompted with a message that says-



Enter Project,programmer #xxx,xxxx

Password:



End of that.



 Now, there are some other useful commands you may enter while still *not*

having a account. You can access Decnet which I will discuss later which is

very nice to a hacker.



 Now, there is also a command you can execute called "Help Phone". What this

does is, it lists the numbers of different Dec related staffs. etc....

Example-



.Help Phone



DCRT/CCB/DECsystem-10 Information Phone numbers (4/86)



Recorded message       Dial xxx-xxxx

Dec-10 operator        Dial xxx-xxxx

Dec-10 staff           Dial xxx-xxxx

Terminal Repairs       Dial xxx-xxxx

Classes/Courses        Dial xxx-xxxx

Users Area Phone       Dial xxx-xxxx

Project Control Office Dial xxx-xxxx



NOTE:This is the same area code as the Decsystem.



 Now the two numbers which would be the most important to you would be the

number of the Dec10 operator and the Dec10 staff.



 Now the most important command which can be executed on the Dec10 which is

good to use is "Systat"; this will list PPN's, time, running job, time elapsed.

 Once you get that PPN you can start hacking away. Using systat is the simplest

and easiest way to get PPN's. It will just be easier to type "SY" instead of

"Systat", they are both the same thing except sy is the abbreviation.



 Now here's a little example of what you would get by executing the "sy"

command.



.SY



Status of Brown University 603A at 11:52:33 on 29-Jan-86



Uptime 187:12:22, 80%Null time = 80%idle + 0%Lost

7 Jobs in use out of 128. 19 logged in 4 detached out of 89   (LOGMAX)

Job    Who    What    Run Time



 1    [OPR]   OPSER     3:22

 2    [OPR]   DIALOG    1:29

 3    [OPR]   BATCON    4:01

 4    [OPR]   SYSINF   51:13 01

 5    24,2    SYSTAT    4:52

 6  2332,21   DIRECT    2:22

 7    32,22   SYSTAT    8:19



 There will also be more stuff along with the above. Now you shouldn't concern

yourself with it, that's why I didn't add in. Now also there will be more

sub-headings than run time, who, what, and job. You also shouldn't concern

yourself with that either.



 Now everything is really self explanatory which is up there. Now for

beginners who are reading this file I will just tell you what that means Job is

no concern. Who is telling you what kind of person is on the system. [OPR]

means Operator, and the numbers such as, 24,2 are referring to regular users

with PPN's. Now the next column which is "What". This is telling us what they

are executing or what they are presently doing on the system. Run time is

telling us what time they logged in. They are using military time. Now under

systat you can find: System File Structures, Busy devices, Height segments, and

Disk Structure. Don't worry about that stuff now.



 Now you've finally got yourself some PPN's, well the next thing to do is to

login using the procedure I showed you with Log. Enter the PPN xx,xx, and try

to hack out some passwords.



 I will now give you a list of passwords which I have currently used to get

into a Dec10. If these passwords don't work well I am sorry you'll just have to

try some yourself.



Note: You can also make a little program having it testing out different PPN's

and Passwords.



List of Passwords--

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Sex           Dec            Decnet

Games         Test           Dcl

System        Computer       Password

Help          Link           List

Secret        Default        Modem

Account       Terminal       Acsnet

Ppn           Operator       Connect

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 There are many more passwords people use but I just put some common ones.



  You can also try random passwords like, AA, AAB, AB, CC, etc..



  Now that is it on logging in. I spent a little too much time on this but

since this will be a two part file, I will discuss more commands that I don't

get around to discuss in here in part II. Now this file is intended for the

beginner so you experienced Dec hackers are bored now or will get bored later.



Note: If connected to Acsnet, just type AcsDec10 to access the Dec. Everything

else that I mentioned in the login will work.



[In the system]



 Now will assume you've finally gotten into the system after hacking your

brains out. Now, this is how you will know you are in the system.

Example-



.Login 21,34

Password:



Note: You usually get two tries to enter PPN and Password.



 The Dec will introduce itself, saying when the last time you were on, etc.



  Also if you may do something like this to log-on.



.Log 12,34

JOB 51 NIH 7.01 KL 64-UC TT12

Password:[c/r]

Other jobs detached with same PPN:

Job 34 running SYSTAT in ^C state

Do you want to ATTACH to this job? yes





Attaching to job 34



 Now, what you are doing is attaching to an idle PPN. See, while someone else

is on the system, about 10 minutes  before you, they can input a

command that will allow them to logoff and he can attach back to that PPN when

he logs back on. That person will then be put to the place where he logged off

at. If I were using 'sys', and I logged off. I would use the command 'detach'.

Now the person would have 15 minutes to call back and attach to his PPN.

There's one other way to attach to an account. If the person doesn't type

something for awhile he will automatically be logged off and if you call within

15 minutes you may be able to attach to his PPN.



Note: You may still have to login.



 Ok, we are now in the system after it has verified itself. What do we do? Well

first let's take another look at the "systat". We notice there is one other

person logged in. But we see he is in "exe", this means he is doing nothing or

he's detached. In other words, don't worry about it.

 Now if we wanted to change our password, we would type-



/Password

 After we do this, the system will ask us for our old password and our new

password, but we should leave the password the way it is so we won't be

discovered. But it's a good thing to know.



 Now we can take a look at other users files. We can do this by typing-



Dir [*,*]



*=Wildcard



 This will show you files of users who have their files set for public access.

Now lets say we want to take a look at someone's file. We would type-



Dir [12,11]



If 12,11 was the user number we wanted we would type that inside the brackets.



 Now there are many types of files. Now you may have looked through someone's

dir, or looked through a wildcard and noticed some files. On most files you may

have seen the words 'txt' or 'exe'.



For exe you will type-



[PPN]filename.exe



for txt you will type-

type filename.txt



 You may also see file types such as: dat, bas, cmd, pcl, bin, hlp, and some

others.



<1>Exe=executable, which means that you can run these files from the "."

prompt.



<2>Txt=Text, these are text files which may contain: information, data or other

numerous things. These are files you may see on most every user who has a

public directory, and I find the most popular on Dec-10's.



<3>Bas=Basic, these files are written in of course basic, and must be used in

basic. To enter that on a Dec-10, just simply type Run Bas or if that doesn't

work type plain old basic.



Note: The basic files are to be used like any other basic file, load them up

and run them.



These are the most common files you may encounter. But when you master those

types of files you can go on and check out the other types of files.



Another way of reading files, is by typing-



File:[*,*]

Once again the '*' is the wildcard.



[Creating a Directory]



 To create a directory you can type at the main prompt- 'Credir'



 There are 2 levels for a directory, the first level is-



 Class and the second is Tvedit.



 Now say we have a nice prived account, so we can have a 2 level directory. We

would type-



Create Directory:[,,class,tvedit]



The Dec-10 would reply by saying-



Created Dska0:[x,x,class]Sfd/protec:775

Created Dska0:[x,x,class,tvedit]sfd/protec:755





x,x=The PPN you are using, and the Dska0 is the device.



 Now we can name our directory by typing-



/Name:



Note: You don't need the brackets.



 We can protect it by typing:



/Protect:



 There are more '/' commands so you can take a look at them by doing '/help'.



   Enough of directories.



[Privs]



 What almost every hacker wants when he logs onto a system is an account with

privileges. If we have an account with privileges we can make our own account

and do some other worth while things.  Now on a Dec10 a prived account almost

always begins with a '1'. Ex- 1,10. Now we can check the system status (sys)

and see if we see anyone under a 1,x account. If we do then we can begin

hacking the password. Now if you get in under '1,2' well that's another story.

Hehe. Now say we do get in under a privileged account. Now first of all to

activate our prived accounts we would type 'enable' this will either give us a

'$' prompt or a '#' prompt. Whichever, it doesn't matter. We can still do what

we have to do. Now let's say we want to make up a nice account, we would type-



$Build[x,x] or Create[x,x]



 After we do that we can edit that PPN or if it's new make up our own.

 Now, I should've mentioned this before but, if you get in on a 1,x account

make sure there is not another user logged in under the same account. If it is

they may change the password, but even if they are in 'exe' and may be detached

we don't want to take any chances now. Now I suggest going on in the late

evening, early morning or if your home from school one day just call at noon or

so.



 There are many different levels of privs, there's the operator, wheel, and

CIA. CIA being the highest since you can do anything and everything.

 Now if you have operator privs you can do the above which was make up an

account and create a nice directory. This will also be nice when attempting to

get into Decnet.



 Now also if you make up a prived account, you should type-



Help Phones 



 At the main prompt. You will get a list of phone numbers including the system

operator's number and system managements. Now they are open usually from 10am

to 5pm. Call during those hrs. and ask them if you can have a Decsystem

timesharing guide. They will ask you questions like what's your name, PPN and

password so have that ready. If they ask you why didn't you already receive

one, just say you've just gotten a account and you were never informed about

the manual.



 This manual is very helpful. It will tell you commands, explain them in

detail, new features, games, etc. Don't order the manual the day you get your

account, wait maybe 4 days or so, then give them a call. They will usually send

it out the next day, unless they get lazy like most of the system operators do.

It's usually safe to have it sent to your house, but if you feel nervous well

get it sent to another place.



[Mail Subsystem]



 Sometimes you may know of a friend who also has an account on the same Dec10

you are on. Your friend may not be on the system right now, so that eliminates

sending messages to him. But there is 1 alternative which is to send mail. With

mail you need the person's name. To access mail type-



Run Mail



 You will then receive the prompt 'MailC', at this prompt you type-



MailC:Send



 Now you will be asked questions on who you want to send the mail to. It will

look something like this-



.Run Mail

MailC:Send



to:Death Hatchet

Subject:Disk Crash

Text:



Yo! My file disk got ruined with //e Writer. See ya.



 Now when your finished with your text just type '.done' or '.d' on a blank

line to indicate that your finish. The Dec10 will reply by saying-



Death Hatchet--Sent



-and will return you to the 'MailC' prompt. Now if you wanted to send the same

message to two people you would do everything I did above except when it says

'to:' you would type-



To:Death Hatchet,The Rico



 The only difference is the comma. You MUST have the comma separate the two

names in order for the system not to take it as one whole name. Once the mail

has been sent, the user Death Hatchet will receive it when he logs on. After he

gets the little welcome messages and his stats from when he last logged on, the

mail will automatically be read to him like this-



From:Carrier Culprit             Postmark:20-Mar-86-08:12:27

  to:Death Hatchet

Subject:Disk Crash



Yo! My file disk got ruined with //e Writer. See ya.



 It will then read other pieces of mail if he has any more. If not, it will

just go to the main prompt. If you want to read the mail again, go to the mail

section and type 'read' instead of send. You will then be able to save it for

your next call or kill it. Sometimes mail won't show up when you first logon so

go to the mail section anyway and check just in case.



 On some of the older Dec10 systems mail was not used, you would just send a

message. Mail was added to the Dec10 system in the mid 70's. No big deal, but

just something to know. If you run mail and you don't get into the mail section

try 'run mai'. The 'run mai' is used on some of the earlier systems, but

usually the system acknowledges both.



 Never send violent mail to system operators, they will log you off and do away

with your account. If you do, I suggest having another account (PPN) on hand.

On some of the newer Dec10 systems, you can forward mail, which you do by

typing 'Frd Mail' at the 'MailC' prompt. The system will then ask you where you

want it forwarded to, their password, your password. The system operator views

this and checks with both parties and he/she will leave you mail saying that it

is done. This is really being tested but I've seen it in operation on some

Dec10's in 714.



[Information]



 This is another handy command that can be used to your advantage. It gives you

information on jobs and PPN's. You don't get passwords but you can get some

good stats. If you type 'info' or 'help info' you will get a list that would

look something like this-

To look at one of the following do-- Info XXXX



  Switch                            Meaning

  ======                            =======

    .                               Information on your job

  [??,??]                           Information on that PPN

  ALL                               Information on all PPN's

  ALL:LOPR                          Information on all Local Operator Jobs(1,2)

  ALL:OPR                           Information on all Operator jobs (1,2)

  ALL:ROPR                          Information on all Remote Operator jobs

  ALL:Users                         Information on all users

  Batch                             Information on all batch jobs

  Detached:ALL                      Information on all Detached PPN'S

  Detached:OPR                      Information on all Detached Operator jobs

  Detached:Users                    Information on all Detached users

  Detached:LOPR                     Information on all Local Operator jobs



 And the list goes on. If you want the whole list just type 'Help Info'. It

will also give info on disk devices, directories, and other stuff. Some of the

Dec10 systems don't support this, but you will find that most of them do.



 The '1,2' which is next to the Operators are system operator accounts. I

mentioned that before, so you won't get confused. Most files are kept under

this account so if you get in under it you'll have a lot to do....hehehe.



[Watch]



 This command will show you your stats. You will be able to toggle it. You can

toggle it on which will display on the top of your screen or just look at it

once. The watch will show you-



Run---which means your CPU time.

Wait--which means your elapsed time since started.

Read--number of disk blocks you have read.

Write--number of disk blocks you have written.



 If you have system privs, type-



Watch[x,x]



 You can watch another person if you have these privs. It will also show you

information. Many operators use this so be careful in what you type.



[Other commands]



 If you want to find out some information about someone type-



Who Their name  job#  TTY



 Now I could do something like-



Who Carrier Culprit  4  #7



This is saying that Carrier Culprit is logged in on job 4 and is on TTY #7. The

monitor will also display the user's PPN, and other information dealing with

his status on the system.

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 Now if you notice one of your friend's are on TTY10 and you want to send him a

message you can type-



Send TTY10  Congratulations on passing your exam



 The user on TTY10 will receive the message and may have the capability of

replying. You can also use this to meet new friends, especially a system

operator who is pretty cool and can give you some accounts, but don't count on

it.

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 If you would like to talk to someone one on one, you can type-



Talk TTY10



 You will now be able to talk to each other, chat, but like I said, watch what

you say sometimes, but don't get to paranoid that the system operator is

watching. Usually if the system operator is under 'Watch' or 'Exe' he may be

watching a certain user. This is just basically a chat system, so have fun with

it.

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 If you have a prived account go into 'enable' and type-



Whostr



 This will give information about users logged in and the directories.

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 If you need the time, just type 'time'. If you have math homework just type

'aid' for desktop calculator.

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Ctrl-characters                      Case Commands

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ctrl-s  = pause                If you support lower case type:

ctrl-q  = resume               'Set Terminal LC'

ctrl-c  = abort

ctrl-h  = backspace



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[Decnet]



 Is supported by all Digital computers. To access it, type 'Decnet' and try to

hack out the password. Decnet supports such nodes as, VMS, TOPS10 (operating

system for Dec10's), TOPS20, and others. Usually system operator's accounts can

be helpful if you need a Decnet pw. Try their pw and see if it works. Usually

the password to Decnet can be plain old "Decnet". Format= Set Host xxxx



[Acsnet]



 This is probably my favorite. This supports Dec10, and many other computers.

When you log on to it, it will look something like this-



ACSNET

Fri Mar 13 19:30:23 1986

Port ID:  dialup C502  at   300 baud



dialup C502 with even parity



>



 Now to get a menu type '?'. It will give you a list of groupnames. To enter

the Dec10 type 'Acsdec10', usually Decnet is not listed so type Decnet anyway.

Other commands for ACSNET are-



Connect      Daytime

Hangup       Disconnect

Info         Help

Release      Resume

Set          WhoamI



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Hmm. Knew I forgot something. To log off the Dec10, just type-

Bye or Kjob (kill job)



Part II: This will deal with the 1,2 PPN and advanced commands using Enable.



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