20 Dec
2017
20 Dec
'17
5:45 a.m.
On Tue, 19 Dec 2017, Derek Fawcus wrote:
Too easy :-)
Re the simulator, a former boss suggested (when these things were rife)
that the BEL character could only be outputted by "root", and if you
didn't hear "ding", well...
I (and likely others) worked around them by deliberating typing a wrong
password (the kiddies were rarely smart enough to loop a couple of times
or to test it), and I was glad when I started working there and had my own
terminal (OK, a shared one in our office).
--
Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will
suffer."
Leaving a
"login" simulator on a terminal (quite common).
Well if you include that one, you may want to include the simple brute
force testing of passwords against /etc/passwd (before shadow files
existed). The login name and real names (direct or reversed) would tend
to get at least one hit.