Subject: What's Hacking VAX Special - 2

Sent: 3/1/90 at 2:49 pm

WHAT DOES A VAX LOOK LIKE: (quickly)

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When you log into a VAX, you will see something similar to the

following:

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WELCOME

TO THE

AT&T MICROVAX II SYSTEM

Username: (username here)

Password: (password here... does not echo)

$ (<-- this is your prompt)

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You will know if you have a VAX type system if you get the

"Username:" and "Password:" prompts. Anything is just extra that

helps you guess passwords.

GETTING IN A VAX BY ERROR:

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I will only tell you one thing here. VMS 4.X and especially

VMS4.4 are goldmines. I am not going to go into this at all,

because it is a lengthy explanation that doesn't fit in the scope

of this message. You can find this discussion on ARPANET and

USENET. You can also get this information on CompuServe

Information Service, BYTE Information Exchange, and Digital

Electronics Corporation's VAX BBS. There is also a big problem

with VMS 5.1, but that doesn't involve getting in. If there are

enough requests, I will cover this information in another mes-

sage.

GETTING IN A VAX BY DEFAULT:

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There are several default accounts that were put in by DEC

when testing and installing the VAX. These accounts have pass-

words which don't change from system to system. The SYSOP should

have removed these accounts or changed the passwords, but it is

not done a lot of times. Below, I have listed several defaults:

USERNAME PASSWORD

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DECNET DECNET

* SYSTEST UETP

SYSTEST

SYSTEM SYSTEM

DEFAULT DEFAULT

* FIELD FIELD

OPERATIONS OPERATIONS

* SUPPORT SUPPORT

DEC

SYSTEST_CLIG CLIG

SYSTEST

TEST

Where I have listed several passwords, I have found the re-

spective usernames passworded that way as much as the default

password. The accounts with asterisks beside them are powerful

accounts by default.