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Re: Kill the DOG and win 100 000 DM


From: Lincoln Yeoh <lyeoh () POP JARING MY>
Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2000 14:38:13 +0800

Hmm. The IP is released but I can't reach the webserver - following doesn't
work:
http://193.102.208.43/

Maybe the site is already experiencing DOS attacks.

At 09:50 PM 05-11-2000 -0500, //Stany wrote:
On Mon, 6 Nov 2000, Jay Tribick wrote:
root doesn't actually have any privileges on a Pitbull system.. he's
just a normal user (out of the box..)

Actually that's not strictly true either - root user has enough
priviledges to allow the system to boot on power on (not the OBP security
levels, but the  PB authentication to let system finish booting up), but
that's about it, yes.

How is remote administration performed? The documentation available online
says that there is a tool for remote admin, but doesn't go into the
details. I think it's ssh.

Is it possible to telnet in, su to root, then run some program to upgrade
your authority? Or telnet in, change your level/authority, then su to root?

For example for Cyberguard on Unixware, you run /sbin/tfadmin newlvl
sys_private. And in theory you're not supposed to be able to do it when you
telnet in from a device at NETWORK level. You can't do that anymore. But
point is often reality refuses to follow theory ;).

For Pitbull systems, what does
/tbin/setsecconfig -D0
do?

From: https://www.argus-systems.com/support/knowledge_base/trouble.shtml#18

I tried to check their online manual, but the manpage doesn't seem to be
there, even though that command is mentioned in the other manpages dealing
with privileges and related commands.

..if anyone would like Jeff Thompsons talk from Defcon 7 on "Hacking B1
Trusted Operating Systems", send me an email and I'll put it up somewhere.

Sure, please.   Knowledge is power, and all that...

It's actually on one of the sites mentioned in the post:

http://www.argusrevolution.com/downloads/DefCon.ppt
From: http://www.argusrevolution.com/pitbullsupport.html

Do you know where I can find the release notes for Pitbull? e.g. what bugs
they fixed in each release? This would be more interesting - you find out
what the developers are having trouble with.

Anyway, I may just poke around when they release root - too lazy to get a
special Solaris 7 and a copy of Pitbull. That is if I can telnet in with
all the DOS attacks going on ;).

Cheerio,
Link.


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