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*> Title:   Hacking UNIX
*> Date:    6/10/89
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Brief history on UNIX
----------------------
Its because of Ken Tompson that today were able to Hack Unix.He used to work
for Bell Labs in the 60s.Tompson started out using the MULTICS OS which was
later eliminated and Tompson was left without an operating system to work with.
Tompson had to come up with something real quick.He did some research and
and in 1969 UNIX came out,which was a single user and it didn't have
many capabilities.A combined effort with others he rewrote the version
in C and added some good features.This version was out in 1973 and was
available to the public.This was the first begining of UNIX as its known      
presently.The more refined version of UNIX,today know as UNIX system V      
developed by Berkley University has unique capabilities.
Various types of UNIXes are CPIX,Berkeley Ver 4.1,Berkeley 4.2,FOS,Genix,HP-UX,
IS/I,OSx,PC-IX,PERPOS,Sys3,Ultrix,Zeus,Xenix,UNITY,VENIX,UTS,Unisys,Uniplus+,
UNOS,Idris,QNIX,Coherent,Cromix,System III,System 7,Sixth edition.

The article it self:
--------------------
I believe that hacking into any system requires knowledge of the Operating
system itself.Basically what I will try to do is make you more familiar with
UNIX  operation ,its usefull commands that will be advantageous to you as a  
hacker.This article contains in depth explainations.                      

Error Messages that one may came across:[UNIX system V]
----------------------------------------
Login incorrect - An ivalid ID and/or pw was entered.This means nothing.
                 In UNIX there is no way guessing valid user IDs.You may     
                 come across this one when trying to get in.
No more logins - will happens when the system wont accept anymore logins
                could be going down            
Unknown Id - will happen if an ivalid id is entered using (su) command
Unexpected eof in file - The file being stripped file has been damaged
Your password has expired - This is quiet rare although there have been cases
                           where it happened.Reading the etc/passwd will
                           show you at how many intervals it changes.
You may not change the password - The password has not yet aged enough.The
                                 Administrator set the quotas for the users
Unknown group [groups name] - occurs when chgrp is executed ,group doesn't
                             exist
Sorry - Indicated that you have typed in an invalid super user password(execu-
       tion of the su)
Permission denied!- Indicated you must be the owner or a super user to change
                   password.
Sorry <[# of weeks] since last change - This will happen when password has    
                                       has not aged enough and you tried to
                                       change it(passwd)
[directory name]:no permission - You are trying to remove a directory which
                                you have no permission to.
[file name] not removed - trying to delete a file owned by another user
                         that you dont have write pemision for.
[dirname] not removed - ownership of the dir is not your that your trying to  
                       delete.
[dirname] not empty - the directory contains files so you must have to delete
                     the files before executing the rmdir
[command] not found - you have entered an ivalid command not know to UNIX
cant execute pwd - some thing wrong with the system cant execute pwd command
cannot chdir to .. -   (.. one level up) permision is required to execute pwd
                      above the current directory
cant open [file name] - defined wrong path,file name or you have no read
                       permission
cp:[file name] and [file name] are identical - self explanatory  
cannot locate parent directory - occurs when using mv
[file name] not found - file which your trying to move doesn't exsist
You have mail - Self explanatory

Basic Networking Utility error messages
---------------------------------------
cu:not found - networking not installed
login failed - invalid id/pw or wrong # specified
dial failed - the systen never answered due to a wrong #
uucp completely failed - did not specify file after -s
wrong time to call - you called at the time at a time not specified in the
                    Systems file
system not in systems - you called a remote not in the systems file

Logon format : first thing one must do is switch to lower case
--------------
Identifing a UNIX.Here is what you'll see:
Some times there will be no system identifer
                            
AT&T UNIX SysVR3.0 (eg of a system identifier)

login:
or
Login:

Any of these is a UNIX.Here is where you will have to guess at a user valid
id.Here are some that I have come across eg( glr,glt,radgo,rml,chester,cat,
lom,cora,hlto,hwill,edcasey and also some containing numbers smith1,mitu6 or
special characters in it like bremer$,j#fox.Login names have to be 3 to 8
chracters in lenght lowercase and must start with a letter.In some XENIX
systems one may login as "guest"

User level accounts:(lower case)
--------------------
In Unix they have whats called accounts .These
accounts can be used at the "login:" prompt.
Here is a list:

sys
bin
trouble
daemon
uucp
nuucp  
rje
lp
adm
listen - if starlan is installed

Super-user accounts:
--------------------
And then there are super-user login which make UNIX worth hacking.   
The accounts are used for a specific job. In large systems these logins
are assingned to users who have a responsibilty to maintain subsystems.

They are as follows :(all lower case)

root       -  this is a must the system comes configured with it.It has no
             restriction.Has power over every other account.
unmountsys -  unmounts files
setup      -  system set up
makefsys   -  makes a new file
sysadm     -  allows useful S.A commands(doesn't need root login)
powerdown  -  powering system down
mountfsys  -  mounts files
checkfsys  -  checks file

These accounts will definitly have passwords assigned to them.These
accounts are also commands used by the system administrator.

Here are some examples of accounts I have seen:

cron         uuhelp     usenet
anonuccp     news       network
bellboy      lp         vector
guest        games      ninja
vote         warble     sysinfo



After the login prompt you will receive a password prompt:

password:
 or
Password:
   
Enter the password (it wont echo).The password rule is as follows:Each pw
has to contain at least 6 characters and maximum has to be 8 .Two of which are
to be alphabetic letters and at least one being a number or a special character
The alphabetic digits could be in upper case or lower case.Here are some of the
passwords that I have seen (eg.Ansuya1,PLAT00N6,uFo/78,ShAsHi..,Div417co)

The passwords for the super user accounts will be difficult to hack
try  the accounts interchangebly eg.login:sysadm password:makefsys or rje1,
sysop,sysop1,bin4 or they might contain letter,numbers,special chracters in
them.It could be anything.The user passwords are changed by an aging proccess
at successive intervals.The users are forced to changed it.The super-user
will pick a password that wont need changing for a long period of time.

You have made it!
-----------------
The hard part is over and hopefully you have hacked a super-user account.
Remember Control-d stops a process and also logs you off.
The next thing you'll probably see is the system news
eg.

login:john
password:hacker1        
System news                 
There will be no networking offered to the users till
august 15,due to hardware problems.             
(just an example)

$

$ is the Unix prompt -waiting for a command to be entered.I will use this
                     throught the article to show outouts etc..(Its not
                     part of the command)
# - means your logged in as root(very good)

A word about the XENIX System III:(run on the tandy 6000)
---------------------------------                  
The largest weakness in the XENIX System III occurs after the installation
of the Profile-16 or more commonly know as the filepro-16.I have seen the     
filepro-16 installed in many systems.          
The installation process creates an entry in the password file for a user  
named \fBprofile\fR ,an account that who owns and administors the database.
The great thing about it is that when the account is created ,no password is
assigned to it.The database contains executable to maintain it.The database
creation programs perform a \fBsetuid\fR to boot up the \fBoot\fR  there by
giving a person the whole C Shell to gain Super User privilege same as root.
Intresting huh!
                    

* Note: First the article will inform you of how the Unix is made up

The Unix is made if three components-The shell,the kernal,file system.

The kernal:
-----------
You could say that the kernal is the heart of the Unix operating system.
The kernal is a low level language lower than the shell which maintains
processes .The kernal handles memory usage ,maintains file system
the sofware and hardware devices.

The shell:
----------
The shell a higher level language. The shell had two important uses,
to act as command interpreture for example using commands like cat,who,       
ls the the shell is at work figuring out whether you have entered a command
correctly or not.The second most important reason for the shell is its ability
to be used as programing language.Suppose your performing some tasks      
repeatedly over and over again,You can program the shell to do this for you.
        
The file system:   
---------------
The file system in Unix is divede into 3 catagories:Directories,ordinary files
and special files.(d,-)
         
Basic stucture:        
(/)-this is abreviation for the root dirctory.
 root level                      root
                                 (/)                                  system
-------------------------------------|----------------------------------level
|      |        |         |                  |        |       |        |
/unix   /etc    /dev      /tmp               /lib     /usr    /usr2    /bin
       |                                        _____|_____
login passwd                                     |    |    |
level                                            /john  /cathy    
                            ________________________|_______________
                           |        |     |      |        |        |
                       .profile   /mail  /pers  /games   /bin     /michelle
*.profile - in case                        |    __|______  |      __|_______
you wich to change your enviroment     capital |        | data   |         |
but after you log off.It sets to              othello  starwars letter letter1
default.                                     

the /unix-is the kernal
/etc - contains system administrators files,Most are not available to the
      regular user.(this directory contains the /passwd file)

   Here are some files under /etc directory:
   /etc/passwd
   /etc/utmp
   /etc/adm/sulog
   /etc/motd
   /etc/group
   /etc/conf
   /etc/profile
 
/dev - contains files for physical devices such as printer and the disk drives
/tmp - temporary file directory
/lib - dirctory that contains programs for high level languages
/usr - this directory contains dirctories for each user on the system

    Eg. of a list of files under /usr
   /usr/tmp
   /usr/lib
   /usr/docs
   /usr/news
   /usr/spool
   /usr/spool/lp
   /usr/lib/uucp

/bin - contain executable programs (commands)

The root also contains:                                                       
/bck - used to mount a back up file system.
/install - Used to install and remove utilities
/lost+found - This is where all the removed files go,This dir is used by fsck
             (1M)
/save -A utility used to save data
/mnt - Used for temporary mounting

**Now the fun part scouting around**

                Local commands (Explained in details)
                -------------------------------------
At the unix prompt type the pwd command-it will show you the current working
directory you are in.

$ pwd
$ /usr/admin - assuming that you have hacked into a super user acc checkfsys
$

This gives you the full login directory.The / before tell you the location
of the root directory                     

or

(REFER TO THE DIAGRAM ABOVE)
$ pwd
$ /usr/john   
$
Assuming you have hacked into johns acc.

Now lets say you wanted to move down to the michelle directory( you own this)
that contains letters.You would type in

$ cd michelle or cd usr/john/michelle
$ pwd
$ /usr/john/michelle
$

Going back one directory up type in:
$ cd ..
or going to your parent directory just type in "cd"
     
Listing file directories assuming you are in the parent directory:

$ ls /usr/john
mail
pers
games        
bin
michelle
This wont give you the .profile file .To view it type
$ cd
$ ls -a
:
:
.profile

To list file names in michelles directory type in:
$ ls michelle (that if your in the johns directory)
$ ls /usr/john/michelle(parent dir)

ls -l            
-----             
The ls -l is an an important command in unix.This command displays the whole
directory in long format :Run this in parent directory

$ ls -l
total 60
-rwxr-x---    5 john      bluebox    10 april 9  7:04  mail
drwx------    7 john      bluebox    30 april 2  4:09  pers
    :            :         :         :     :      :    :
    :            :         :         :     :      :    :
-rwxr-x---     6 cathy    bluebox    13 april 1  13:00 partys
    :            :         :         :     :      :    :
$
  
The total 60 tells one the ammount of disk space used in a directory.The     
-rwxr-x--- is read in triples of 3.The first chracter eg(-,d,b,c)-means as
follows: - is an ordinary file ,d is a directory,b is block file,c is a
chracter file.
The r stands for read permission,w is write permission,x is execute.The first
colum is read in 3 triples as stated above.The first group of 3 (in -rwxr-x---)
after the "-" specifies the permission for the owner of the file,the second
triple are for the groups (the fourth colum) and the last triple are the      
permissions for all other users.Therefore the -rwxr-x--- is read as follows.
The owner john has permission to read,write and execute anything in the bin
directory but the group has no write permission to it and the rest of the users
have no permission at all.The format of one of the lines in the above output
is as follows:

file type-permissions,links,usersname,group,bytes taken,date,time when last
renued,directory or file name.
**You will be able to read,execute cathys file named party due to the same
group***

chmod                    
-----             
The chmod command changes permission of a directory or a file.Format is
chmod who+,-,=r,w,x
The who is substituted by u-user,g-group,o-other users,a-all.
The + means add permission,- means remove permission,= - assign.  
Example :If you wanted all other users to read the file name mail ,type:   

$ chmod o+r mail

cat         
---          
Now suppose you wanted to read the file letter .There are teo ways to doing
this.First go to the michelle directory then type in:

$ cat letter
line one ...\
line two ... }the output of letter
line three../
$
  or
If you are in the parent directory type in:
$ cat /usr/john/michelle/letter
and you will have the same output.

Some cat options are  -s,-u,-v,-e,-t

Special Chracters in Unix:
-------------------------
*  - matches any number of single characters eg. ls john* will list
    all files that begin with john
[...] - matchs any one of the chracter in the [ ]
? - matches any single chracter
runs a process in the backgroung leaving your terminal free
$ - Values used for variables also $n - null argument
> - redirectes output
< - redirects input to come from a file
>> - redirects command to be added to the end of a file
| - pipe output (eg:who|wc-l tells us how many users are online)
"..." - Turn of meaning of special chracters excluding $,`
`...` - allows command output in to be used in a command line
'...' - turns of special meaning of all chracters

continuation of local commands...[     ] -contains the options used
-------------------------------
passwd
------
Password changing seems to be a big thing among the savants.Anyway to change
the password one would use the 'passwd' command as shown below:

  $passwd
  Changing password for john
  Old password:                              
  New password:                              
  Retype new password:
  $
 
This will only work when the password has aged enough

ps
--
Its sometimes necessary to see what command procesess you are running,this
command lets you see that.
ps [-a all processes except group leaders] [-e all processes] [-f the whole
  list]                                                           

  $ps
  PID   TTY  TIME   COMMAND
  200   tty09 14:20  ps

  The systems reports (PID - process idenetification number which is a #
  from 1-30,000 assigned to UNIX processes)
  It also reports the TTY,TIME and the COMMAND being executed at the time.
  To stop a process enter :    

  $kill [PID] (this case its 200)
  200 terminated
  $

grep
----
This comand is important when seaching for a word or words in large files.

grep [argument] [file name] - searchs for an file that contains the argument
                             for example:
  $ grep phone cathy
   phone   michelle  (718)5551234
   phone   cindy   (718)5553456

   What this did was to find the argument 'phone' in the file cathy.If the
   argument consists of two or more words then  it must be enclosed in single
   quotes.


mv
--
mv [file names(s)] [ dir name ] - renames a file or moves it to another     
                                 directory eg.      
  $mv letter letters
  $
  This renames the file letter to letters thereby deleting letter
                 or if you want to move files then
  $mv /usr/john/pers/capital /usr/john/michelle/capital
  $   
  This moves the file capital to the directory named michelle

diff
----
diff [file name] [ file name] - show diffrence between two files.Output of this
                               will have something like 4,5c4,5 then the it
                               will display both sets of files on the screen
                               The 4,5c4,5 means that you must change "c"
                               lines 4 to 5 in one file to line 4 to 5 in   
                               another.
     Option for using this command are :
      -b  -  it ignores blank spaces
      -h  - compares it quickly
      -s  - reports files that are the same
      -S[file] - this is when you want to compare a directory starting at a
                 specific file
      

      There is also a command to compare 3 files which is :   

      diff3 [options] [file1] [file2] [file3]

cp
--
cp [file name] [file name] - makes a copy of a file

  $ cp letter letters
  $
  The file letters is a dupilcate copy of letter.In this case the original
  is not erased like in the mv command



.... more UNIX commands:
--------------------

man [command] or [c/r] -will give you a list of commands explainations

help - available on some UNIX systems
                 
mkdir [dir name(s)] - makes a directory      

rmdir [dir name(s)] - removes directory.You wont be able to remove the
                     directory if it contains files in them

rm [file name(s)] - removes files. rm * will erase all files in the current
                   dir.Be carefull you!!.Some options are :                
                   [-f unconditional removal] [-i Prompts user for y or n]
                       
write [login name ] - to write to other logged in users.Sort of a chat

mesg [-n] [-y] - doesn't allow others to send you messages using the write
                command.Wall used by system adm overrides it.

$ [file name] - to execute any file

wc [file name] - Counts words,chracters,lines in a file

stty [modes] - Set terminal I/O for the current devices

sort [filename] - Sorts and merges files many options

spell [file name] > [file name] - The second file is where the misspelt words
                                 are entered

date [+%m%d%y*] [+%H%%M%S] - Displays date acoording to options

at [-r] [-l] [job] - Does a specified job at a specified time.The -r Removes
                    all previously scheduled jobs.The -l reports the job #
                    and status of all jobs scheduled

write [login] [tty] - Sends message to the login name.Chat!



su [login name]
---------------
The su command allows one to switch user to a super user to a user.Very
important could be used to switch to super user accounts.
Usage:                                                

$ su sysadm
password:

This su command will be monitored in /usr/adm/sulog and this file of all files
is carefully monitered by the system administrator.Suppose you hacked in johns
account and then switched to the sysadm account (ABOVE) your /usr/adm/sulog
entry would look like:

SU  04/19/88  21:00 + tty 12 john-sysadm

Therfore the S.A(system administrator) would know that john swithed to sysadm
account on 4/19/88 at 21:00 hours

Searching for valid login names:   
-------------------------------
Type in-
$ who  ( command informs the user of other users on the system)
cathy  tty1  april 19  2:30
john   tty2  april 19  2:19
dipal  tty3  april 19  2:31
:
:
tty is the users terminal,date,time each logged on.dipal,john are valid
logins.   

Files worth concatenating(cat)
/etc/passwd file:                    
-----------------                     
The etc/passwd is a vital file to cat.For it contains login names of all
users including super user accounts and there passwords.In the newer          
SVR3 releases they are tighting their security by moving the encrypted
passwords from /etc/passwd to /etc/shadow making it only readable by root.
This is optional offcourse.

$ cat /etc/passwd
root:D943/sys34:0:1:0000:/:
sysadm:k54doPerate:0:0:administration:usr/admin:/bin/rsh
checkfsys:Locked;:0:0:check file system:/usr/admin:/bin/rsh
:
other super user accs.
:
john:chips11:34:3:john scezerend:/usr/john:
:
other users
:
$
If you have reached this far capture this file as soon as posible.
This is a typical output etc/passwd file.The entries are seperated
by a ":".There made be up to 7 fields in each line.
Eg.sysadm account.
The first is the login name in this case sysadm.The second field contains the
password.The third field contains the user id."0 is the root".Then comes the
group id then the account which contains the user full name etc .The sixth
field is the login directory defines the full path name of the the particlar
account and the last is the program to be executed.          
Now one can switch to other super user account using su command descibed above.
The password entry in the field of the checkfsys account in the above example
is "Locked;". This doesn't mean thats its a password but the account
checkfsys cannot be accessed remotely.The ";" acts as an unused encryption
chracter.A space is also used for the same purpose.You will find this in many
UNIX systems that are small systems where the system administrator handles
all maintaince.  

Password aging:  
---------------
If password aging is active the user is forced to change the password at    
regular intervals.One may be able to tell just by looking at the /etc/passwd
file when the password is allowed to be changed and when it is compulsory to
change it.
For example the entry:

john:chips11,43:34:3:John Scezerend:/usr/john:

The password contains an extension of (,43) which mean that john can change has
to change the password atleast evert 6 weeks and can keep it for atleast 3
week.The format used is [password],Mmww.The M is the maxiumum number of weeks
password has to be change and m is the minimum interval password can be changed
and the ww is indicates when the password was last changed.

   Aging chart:
---------|-----------
Character|# of weeks
   .    |  0
   /    |  1
0-9     | 2-11
A-Z     | 12-37
a-z     | 38-63
---------|-----------

From the above anyone can determine the number of weeks one can chnage the    
password.         

The (ww) is automatically added as to when the password was last changed .   

IF SHAWDOWING IS ACTIVE:
------------------------

If the shawdowing is active the /etc/passwd would look like this:

root:x:0:1:0000:/:
sysadm:x:0:0:administration:/usr/admin:/bin/rsh

The password filed is substituted by "x".

The /etc/shawdow file only readable by root will look similar to
this:

root:D943/sys34:5288::
:
super user accounts
:
Cathy:masai1:5055:7:120
:
all other users
:  

The first field contains users id:the second contains the password(The pw will
be NONE if logining in remotely is deactivated):the third contains a code of
when the password was last changed:the fourth and the fifth contains the
minimum and the maximum numbers of days for pw changes(Its rare that you will
find this in the super user logins due to there hard to guess passwords)

 
/etc/options directory
-----------------------
The etc/options dir will consists of utilities available in the system.
Example:                  
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root  sys   40 april  1:00  uucp.name                
uucp standing for BNU

/etc/group
-----------
The file has each group on the system.Each line will have 4 entries separated
by a ":" . Example of concatenated /etc/group:

root::0:root
adm::2:adm,root
bluebox::70:

Group name:password:group id:login names
** It very unlikely that groups will have passwords assigned to them **
The id "0" is assigned to /

Sending and recieving messages:
-------------------------------
Two programs are used to manage this.They are mail & mailx.The difference
between them is that mailx is more fancier thereby giving you many choices
like replying message ,using editors etc.
Sending:
--------  
The basic format for using this command is:

$mail [login(s)]
(now one would enter the text
after finishing enter "." a period
on the next blank line)
$
This command is also used to send mail to remote systems.Suppose you wanted
to send mail to john on a remote called ATT01
you would type in:

$mail ATT01!john

Mail can be sent to several users,just by entering more login name after
issuing the mail command

Using mailx is the same format:(This I'll describe very briefly)
$mailx john
subject:(this lets you enter the subject)
(line #1)
(line #2)
(After you finish enter (~.) not the brackets offcourse ,more commands are
available like ~p,~r,~v,~m,~h,~b etc.)

Receiving:
----------
After you log on to the system you will the account may have mail waiting.
You will be notified "you have mail".   
To read this enter:       
$mail
(line #1)
(line #2)
(line #3)
?       
$
After the message you will be prompted with a question mark.Here you have a
choice to delete it by entering d,saving it to view it later s,or just press
enter to view the next message.
(DONT BE A SAVANT AND DELETE THE POOR GUYS MAIL)

Super user commands:
--------------------
$sysadm adduser - will take you through a routine to add a user
                (may not last long)

Enter this:

$ sysadm adduser
password:
(this is what you will see)
/--------------------------------------------------------------------------\
 Process running succommmand `adduser`     
 USER MANAGMENT

 Anytime you want to quit, type "q".
 If you are not sure how to answer any prompt, type "?" for help

 If a default appears in the question,press <RETURN> for the default.

 Enter users full name [?,q]: (enter the name you want)                
 Enter users login ID [?,q]:(the id you want to use)
 Enter users ID number (default 50000) [?,q) [?,q]:( press return )
 Enter group ID number or group name:(any name from /etc/group)
 Enter users login home directory:(enter /usr/name)
   
 This is the information for the new login:
 Users name: (name)
 login ID:(id)
 users ID:50000
 group ID or name:     
 home directory:/usr/name
Do you want to install,edit,skip [i,e,s,q]? (enter your choice if "i" then)
Login installed
Do you want to give the user a password?[y,n] (its better to enter one)
New password:
Re-enter password:   

Do you wan

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