[40263] in Hotline Meeting
xlogin hacks
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Angie Kelic)
Mon Oct 27 11:38:08 1997
To: hotline@MIT.EDU, hacked-ws@MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 1997 11:38:00 EST
From: Angie Kelic <sly@MIT.EDU>
The machines in the m37 cluster have had the athena owl replaced
with a skull and cross bones, On this particular machine
m37-312-29, the files look like this
athena% pwd
/etc/athena/login
athena% ls -la
total 124
drwxr-xr-x 4 root other 512 Oct 27 11:10 .
drwxr-xr-x 4 root other 1024 Sep 30 03:21 ..
-r--r--r-- 1 root other 24158 Oct 31 1997 .Xlogin.old
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root other 1586 Oct 31 1997 .Xsession.old
-r--r--r-- 1 root other 2779 May 12 15:29 Console
-r--r--r-- 1 root other 24158 Oct 31 1997 Xlogin
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root other 1586 Oct 31 1997 Xsession
drwxr-xr-x 2 root other 1024 Oct 27 04:40 bitmaps
-r--r--r-- 1 root other 534 May 18 14:09 config
drwxrwxr-x 2 root other 512 Jul 8 1996 fonts
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root other 1889 May 18 14:09 machine
athena% last
sly ttyp0 :0.0 Mon Oct 27 11:23 still logged in
cylin ttyp0 :0.0 Mon Oct 27 09:55 - 09:58 (00:02)
cyrusw ttyp0 :0.0 Mon Oct 27 04:40 - 04:40 (00:00)
ddottin ttyp0 :0.0 Sun Oct 26 22:47 - 23:08 (00:21)
athena% cd bitmaps
athena% ls -la
total 204
*snip*
-r--r--r-- 1 root 101 6762 Oct 31 1997 skl
-r--r--r-- 1 root 101 586 Oct 31 1997 skleyes0.xbm
-r--r--r-- 1 root 101 697 Oct 31 1997 skleyes1.xbm
-r--r--r-- 1 root 101 697 Oct 31 1997 skleyes2.xbm
-r--r--r-- 1 root 101 697 Oct 31 1997 skleyes3.xbm
-r--r--r-- 1 root 101 697 Oct 31 1997 skleyes4.xbm
-r--r--r-- 1 root 101 697 Oct 31 1997 skleyes5.xbm
People are wandering around the cluster and don't want to log into
the machines because they've obviously been altered...
--Angie
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