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Phreaking COSMOS
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COSMOS is Bell's computer for handling information on customer lines,
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special services on lines, and orders to change line equipment, disconnect
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lines, etc. COSMOS stands for Computerized System for Mainframe Operations. It
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is based on the UNIX operating system and, depending upon the COSMOS and upon
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your access, has some, many, or no UNIX standard commands. COSMOS is powerful,
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but there is no reason to be afraid of it. This article will give some of the
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basic, pertinent info on how users get in, account format, and a few other
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goodies.
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Password Identification
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To get onto COSMOS you need a dialup, account, password, and wire center
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(WC). Wire centers are two letter codes that tell what section of the COSMOS
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you are in. There are different WC's f or different areas and groups of
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exchanges. Examples are PB, SR, LK, et c. Sometimes there are accounts that
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have no password; obviously such accounts are the easiest to hack.
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Checking It Out
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Let's suppose you have a COSMOS number which you obtained one way or
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another. The first thing to do would be to make sure it is really a COSMOS
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system, not some other Bell or AT&T computer. To do this, you would call it
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and connect your modem,, then hit some returns until you got a response. It
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should say:
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';LOGIN:' or 'NAME:'.
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If you enter some garbage it should say:
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'PASSWORD:'.
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If you hit a return and it says 'WC?', it is a COSMOS system. If it says
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something like 'TA%' then you're in business. If it doesn't do any of the
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above, then it is either some other kind of system, or, if you're not getting
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anything at all, the dialup has probably gone bad.
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Getting In
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COSMOS has certain accounts that are usually on the system, one of which
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might not have a password. They consist of ROOT (most powerful and almost
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always on the system), SYS (second most powerful, still many privileges), BIN
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(a little less power), PREOP (a little less), and COSMOS (hardly any
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privileges, like a normal user). The way to tell if they have passwords is by
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entering accounts at the ';LOGIN:' or ' NAME:' prompt, and if it jumps straight
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to 'WC?', all you need is a WC to get in. But suppose all of the accounts have
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passwords? You have two choices. You can try to hack the password and WC to
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one of the above accounts. I won't deal with this method, as is
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self-explanatory. Or you can do something I find much easier...call the
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COSMOS during business hours and hope that someone forgot to log off. Keep
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calling until when you connect and hit return until you get a 'WC%' prompt.
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'WC' is the WC that the account you found is currently in. You are now in!
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What to Do while on-line
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The first thing you want to do is write down the WC you are in. Only on our
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first login it is a good idea to print everything or dump everything to a
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buffer.
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Commands
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'WCFLDS'(!) : Should list all WC's.
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'WHO' : Should print everyone currently logged on the system, giving
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some accounts.
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'TTY' : Tells what terminal port you are on.
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'WHERE' : Should tell the location of the COSMOS installation.
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'WHAT' : Tells what version of COSNIX, COSMOS's operating system, it
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is.
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'LS *' : Prints all the files you have access to.
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'CD /dir' : Connects you to the directory '/dir'.
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'CAT filename ' : Prints the file 'filename'.
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'Q' : Quits the editor.
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CTRL- Y. : Logs off
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'TAT' : Sometimes prints a little help file.
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'ISH' : Check someone's telefone #, type 'ISH' at the COSMOS 'WC%'
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prompt. Then type.
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'HTN XXX-XXXX' : (Hunt Telephone Number) to tell you about the local number
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you are interested in.
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'CAT /ETC/PASSWD': Prints out the password file, if you have access. The
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passwords are almost always encrypted, but you get a list of all the accounts.
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If you are lucky, one of the lines will have two colons after the account name.
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This means there is no prompt from the ';LOGIN:' or 'NAME:' prompts when you
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enter that account.
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To run a file just type the name followed by a return.
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When the system gives you a '-', you type a '.', and it will type all kinds
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of info on the phone number you entered (in Bell abbreviations, of course). If
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it is not a good exchange, it will say something to that effect. You type a
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period to end the ISH.
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If you wish to learn more information about COSMOS, find yourself a COSMOS
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manual or look at future issues of 2600. A UNIX manual would also be helpful
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for standard UNIX commands.
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