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Notes On Tops-20 Systems
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by
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The Blue Archer and The Legion of Hackers!
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Notes in brackets require the brackets.(2) This is just a basic overlay of the
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tops-20(Dec-20) And it's commands since most of these systems are modified by
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their owner and the commands might be different in some way or another. Now for
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the article...Logging in, in a brief description: to login you type:login
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username Where username is a wildcard for the account you are trying to break
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into. There are a couple of ways to get usernames. One of the most common ways
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is to type 'SY' at the prompt. This means systat, or system status. It will
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give you a list of users on the system at the time and what they are doing
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(what programs they are running, etc). Another way, and a way I find more
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effective since it gives you a much broader scope of usernames is to type
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a letter or serr If there are more then one username it will give you a beep,
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then you just type in another letter. Example: login a(esc) It gives me a
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beep because there are more then one user with the beginning letter a.
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So I type an m, an something like this: login ammons (password) these letters
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for the username ammons were just filled in. It says password, then you type
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a guess at the password, then return for a try at the pass or you can type in
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another escape and it will say '(account)', here you usualy just type another
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escape and let it fill in an account name, which the user may use for a pass-
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word. Lets assume you got in, so we can continue with the file. Ok, you prob-
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ably want to know if this guy has priveldges or not. To do this type 'I dir
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<username>' and it will list out various information. The various privs are
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normal(dull), operator, and wheel. If you find one with operator privs, it
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is as good as having one with wheel since an operator can give the account
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wheel access. Don't confuse operator priveledges with the username operator.
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You can have oper pvivs and not be an operator , it has happened to me before.
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To be able to use these privs type the command 'enable'. You will now have a
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different prompt also. We will discusda is to see what kind of files this guy
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(or other people, if you have good privs)has. To do this type 'dir' for
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divectory. This will list the guy's files. There are various types of files.
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We wil discuss 3 types and how to use them. The first is the file type 'exec'.
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Which means executable from command level(the main prompt). To use this kind,
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you just type the filename at the command level. These files, in a directory,
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are in the form of: filename.exe.#
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These files are usually programs and the like. The next kind of file we will
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discuss is the text file. They are in the form of: fihename.txt(or text).# To
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view the contents of these files(that is all they are for) you just type
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'type filename'. You can also type the other files types via the 'type'
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command, but it usualy is just garbage unless you know about programing
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ddt and other various languages in the file. The last file type we will
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discuss is the command file. It is in the format of: filename.cmd.# To use this
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file you type 'take filename'. This is valid logout.cmd files to set the
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terminal types, and do various other things. Other filetypes are bin, which are
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used by other programs. They just containg data for the program, so run the
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program not this. Some files dont say what they are and the only way
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you have of knowing what they are is trying all of the above. To look at other
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people's directories type: dir <username> If you are not wheeled, then as to
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whether or not you can access the persons files, depends on his protection.
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Some leave it high, so anyone can see the files. Some set it very low so no one
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except they and the wheels/operators can access them. If you are a wheel you
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can access anyones files at all. To utilize someone elses files, just type:
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command(take, type, or the filename, depending on the file type)
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<username>filename.filetype.# Also, if there is only one filename under the
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file, you don't need to type the number, and some of the commands can be
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abreiviated (Ie:ty for type, etc). The system also has files, to access them
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type 'dir sy<usrname>filename.filetype.# Then you don't have to type out all
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the extra file info to use the program if you are going to use it often, or
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just like it for whatever reason. Ok, now done with files say you want to
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create an account (if you are wheeled, that is, here is how you do it.) Type:
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build <the username you want> password you will then have 2 prompts, type
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(without the prompts): max ###(however many subdirectories you want to be able
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to create, up to 999 or so) Not files wheel, if you want wheel access
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(of course)(rmturn) Oh, dont forget to type enable before doing this. On these
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systems only a wheel or an operator can create accounts. If you don't want to
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create an account(or you do but want to do this too!), to get a list of all the
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passwords, if the system password file isn't encrypted, type: ulist then the
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word 'include' which means include password, and you might also want to type
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'alphabetic' for an alphabetical list of usernames and passwords.
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To change the password of the acask you the new pass twice and the old one
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once. Ok, finished with that.
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Now: communicating with other users. The first and most obvious way is mail.
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On most systems if you type 'mm' it will take you to the mailing section.
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There you can send, read, delete, whatever, to the mail you have.
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To send, just type 'send' then fill out the info. To read type 'r #' where #
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is the number of the piece of mail you want to read. Mail is kept in the file
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'mail.txt' and it keeps all the mail the user gets unless he deletes it, so
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you can read old mail and stuff looking for more p/ws dialups, etc.. The next
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way is to communicate to on-line users. You can send them a message by typing
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'send username' then fillhng out a message. Or you can link to the user by
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typekng 'talk username'. Then your screens are linked. You can do this with
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more then one person. So you could have as many people linked as you want.
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Another way of communication is the devious way, spying. You can only do this
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if you are a wheel. Just type spy at thent type the username of the person to
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be spied on. Be warned wheels often do this to check on the system. So watch
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what you are doing if someone is sitting in exec for an hour or something, or
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someone is running the spy command. You can tell this by systat. Unless of
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course there is no one else on the system (late at night) then you dont have
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to worry. Oh, I forgot to mention, in a systat, if the part 'line' says 'det'
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then don't worry about them, they are detached, meaning they are not logged in,
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but the next time they log in, the can attach to that job and continue where
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they left off. If you hang up you are also detached. Oh, I almost forgot, one
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more way to communicate is the advise command. To use this, type: advise
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username and you have control over his terminal.
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[Mother Earth BBS]
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