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- Breaking into BBS Express Courtesy of the Jolly Roger
-
- If you have high enough access on any BBS Express BBS you can get the
- Sysop's password without any problems and be able to log on as him and do
- whatever you like. Download the Pass file, delete the whole BBS, anything.
- Its all a matter of uploading a text file and d/ling it from the BBS. You
- must have high enough access to see new uploads to do this. If you can see
- a file you just uploaded you have the ability to break into the BBS in a
- few easy steps.
- Why am I telling everyone this when I run BBS Express myself?
- Well there is one way to stop this from happening and I want other Sysops
- to be aware of it and not have it happen to them.
- Breaking in is all based on the MENU function of BBS Express. Express
- will let you create a menu to display different text files by putting the
- word MENU at the top of any text file and stating what files are to be
- displayed. But due to a major screw up by Mr. Ledbetter you can use this
- MENU option to display the USERLOG and the Sysop's Passwords or anything
- else you like. I will show you how to get the Sysop's pass and therefore
- log on as the Sysop. BBs Express Sysop's have 2 passwords. One like
- everyone else gets in the form of X1XXX, and a Secondary password
- to make it harder to hack out the Sysops pass.
- The Secondary pass is found in a file called SYSDATA.DAT.
- This file must be on drive 1 and is therefore easy to get. All you have to
- do is upload this simple Text file:
-
- MENU
- 1
- D1:SYSDATA.DAT
-
- Ripoff time!
-
- after you upload this file you d/l it non-Xmodem. Stupid Express thinks
- it is displaying a menu and you will see this:
-
- Ripoff time!
-
- Selection [0]:
-
- Just hit 1 and Express will display the SYSDATA.DAT file.OPPASS is where
- the Sysop's Secondary pass will be. D1:USERLOG.DAT is where you will find
- the name and Drive number of the USERLOG.DAT file. The Sysop might have
- renamed this file or put it in a Subdirectory or even on a different
- drive. I Will Assume he left it as D1:USERLOG.DAT. The other parts of this
- file tell you where the .HLP screens are and where the LOG is saved and
- all the Download path names.
-
- Now to get the Sysop's primary pass you upload a text file like this:
-
- MENU
- 1
- D1:USERLOG.DAT
-
- Breaking into Bedwetter's BBS
-
- Again you then d/l this file non-Xmodem and you will see:
-
- Breaking into Bedwetter's BBS
-
- Selection [0]:
-
- You then hit 1 and the long USERLOG.DAT file comes flying at you.
- The Sysop is the first entry in this very long file so it is easy. You will
- see:
-
- SYSOP'S NAME X1XXX
- You should now have his 2 passwords.
-
- There is only one easy way out of this that I can think of, and that is
- to make all new uploads go to SYSOP level (Level 9) access only. This way
- nobody can pull off what I just explained.
- I feel this is a major Bug on Mr. Ledbetter's part. I just don't know why
- no one had thought of it before. I would like to give credit to
- Redline for the message he left on Modem Hell telling about this problem,
- and also to Unka for his ideas and input about correcting it.
-
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