Hackers Underworld 2: Forbidden Knowledge/Hackers Underworld 2: Forbidden Knowledge.iso/HACKING/DARTKIEW.TXT

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                     Dartmouth Kiewit System
                               by
                         the lone ranger
                       Released:01-05-86

    This might be some sort of on-going set of files but I doubt
it.  The only way I can see that it would be is that someone else
would continue it for me as this kind of drained a bit of my
general interest in the system.  I am not saying I am more
qualified than any other people to write this file but I did it
first, at least to my knowledge.  Constructive criticism is
welcomed but annoying is not.
  Dial up:603/643-6310 300/1200/2400/????
  Another:603/643-6309 "                "
  Telenet:60320


   You will be assigned ports according to baud rate.  There are
many systems on this system and I will focus on one.  D1.  To
list a few more: d2,lib,u1,u2,v1,v2...
To go to one of these systems type "C ";system name (for you
BASIC programmers.)  I.E. C D1.  You can type HELP there also.
Oh, by the way: D1,d2 are College Timesharing, lib is a card
catalog, u1 is an Ultrix library system, u2 is a Unix, v1 and v2
are Vax's.  On with this thing...

                             Kiewit
                             ------

   This is just to quickly give you an outline of what this
Kiewit system is.  Dartmouth Kiewit has many systems hooked up to
external (modem) and internal (terminal) ports.  On the Dartmouth
campus there are many terminals that transmit somewhere around
9600 baud that are open for use to the Dartmouth students.  The
Kiewit system brings many well-known systems together.  There are
Vax's, Unix's (Ultrix), card catalogs, and College Time Sharing
systems which is what I will focus on in this file.  In
this file I will concentrate on Dartmouth College Timesharing
System 1 as it is the system I know most about.  If I feel up to
it and gain more knowledge, I will write more files about the
other systems available.  Of course, I mind not if other people
write continuations of this file.  Feel free to use, allude to,
or merely mention this file in your others.  Here we go...

                              DCTS1
                              -----

INTRODUCTION:
    Somewhere around October of 1985 The Whacko Cracko Bros.
started calling the Kiewit system for various reasons.  One of
which was the attraction of a BBS called DUNE.  I will not get
into specifics.  As phreaks/hacks began to suggest to others of
their kind that they call, the system filled.  I'm not talking
flocks but maybe a group of at least 20-30 phreaks/hacks,
probably more.   Orcus, aka Tom Sawyer, was the first person
that got me to call.  They had a conference called XYZ.  All you
had to do was type "JOIN XYZ" and there you were.  What a great
place...up to 36 people on at once.  I had troubles using it at
first but since I am easily bored I got better and better.
Finally I figured that anyone call into the system could set up
such a conference.  It then took me a good 3 days to figure out
how.  I considered myself superior to all else.  In a sense I
was.  I could set it up and others didn't know how.  I
continually gained knowledge on different conference programs
while other phreaks/hacks began to learn.  I settled into the
system and was happy, thinking I knew what I was doing.  Then I
got curious which led me to doing some research.  That was when
I got overloaded with things to learn about.  I decided to learn
about the important and useful commands because there are WELL
OVER 1800 commands on this system.  Batch files, programming in
many languages, writing your own chat program, learning about the
system from other people, multi-user games (some of which I
 knew before hand).  This is a system that can be an incredible
learning tool.  I may be getting a little corny here but my point
is that it's for learning and not another toy for people to go
crashing.

Logging on:
Kiewit Network, Dartmouth College, port 44/24 (type HELP for
assistance)
@ c d1


Dartmouth College Time Sharing, D1
30 Dec 85, at 17:36, 089 users.

DCTS1 until 3:00 AM.  List NEWS*** (12/20/85) and PCNEWS***
(12/26/85).

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PCNEWS***.

User number--

BBBBBBBBBB
WWWWWWWWWW
MMMMMMMMMM
########## <-- Password
                                  (this is not as it actually
                                   appears because this file is a
                                   bit less than 80 cols.)
    Ok, let's go through that step by step (in honor of the
prehistoric switching system).  The first thing you see is just
a general logon for the entire Kiewit Network.  I typed, C D1
which translated would be Connect DCTS1.  (DCTS stands for
Dartmouth College Time Sharing 1).  Now there are many more
locations you can connect to and I will get into them later.  For
now be satisfied with D1.  Then you get the time (EST) and date.
There is a number of users, date, and announcements.  At certain
times  maintenance is being done on the system and you will receive
a "System not available."  Call back later. To continue, it
will ask you for a User Number.  Each Dartmouth student has an ID
and password to the system because there are many terminals
located all over the campus.  User Numbers consist of the
student's college id number.  They will be in this form:
#=Number (duh)
$=Letter
User Number--#####$       or,      If you want help type HELP.
User Number--$#####
There are privileged user id's and to enter them type PR, before
entering the id.  Then as I have so badly represented in this
file B's, M's, W's, and #'s will go across the screen AS EMBEDDED
BACKSPACES, not as I have shown in the file.  When it is ready to
receive the password it will look as thus:
########## <-- Password
Passwords consist of the students birthdate or the first three
letters of there last name...thus the password will not fill all
of the number signs shown.
     To hack at this system takes time and patience.  It is good
however because it is very easy to write a hacking program that
will sequentially scan dates.  After five entries it will not let
you into the system, even if you do enter a valid password.
There's the hang up.  There are two solutions.  One is to enter
five tries, hang up, call back.  That would be an endless loop of
boredom and some minorly difficult programming.  Two is to enter
four tries, enter a valid password, type "HELLO", so on and so
on.  The problem with this is that you have to have a valid
password to begin with.  Get that from someone else or use method
one to hack for a password, get another with method two.  You may
be wondering why it is necessary to have more than one password.
The answer is simply, the more the better.  It's not as though
Dartmouth leaves you mail saying, "Your password will be
devalidated on next Monday."  There are rates to use the system
but I'm not sure if they actually follow through with billing.

NOTE 1:You may enter letters in upper or lower case.
NOTE 2:To save time with the entering of User Numbers and
Password try:
"User Number-- NUMBER,PASSWORD"

"You have mail waiting type MAIL SUM for a summary"
or something to that effect.  That is if you have mail.
If you have mail or not you will receive the following:

Ready


You're in!  Oh shit, what now?  Try HELP.  Wow, that makes sense.
  When in doubt, type HELP!  Now, you'll be reading the output
and it will tell you a few different things to "EXPLAIN."  I
suggest you do so.  It is very self-explanatory.  Now, after
you've done your hardy load of reading you have a lot of commands
to try out.  I suggest you first type "JOI(N) XYZ".  At many
times during the day you might be able to find some helpful
phreak or hack.

   Before we go any further I would like to mention a few things.
Upper and lower case make no difference.  To be able to see your
backspaces WHICH IS CHR$(127), NOT CHR$(8), type  ".ter scr.bri".
  Also when I put things in << >> it's just my dumbass method
of doing it.  Don't type those things in (just making sure).
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