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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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:
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- [1] Ripoff time!
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- after you upload this file you d/l it
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- displaying a menu and you will see
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- [1] Ripoff time!
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- Selection [0]:
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- Just hit 1 and Express will display the
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- SYSOPPASS 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.
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- Now to get the Sysop's primary pass you
- upload a text file like this:
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- MENU
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- D1:USERLOG.DAT
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- [1] Breaking into Bedwetter's BBS
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- Again you then d/l this file non-Xmodem
- and you will see:
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- [1] Breaking into Bedwetter's BBS
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- Selection [0]:
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- 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
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- SYSOP'S NAME X1XXX
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- X1XXX is the Sysops Primary pass word.
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- You now can call back as the Sysop as
- you have his 2 passwords.
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- 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.
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- 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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- This has been brought to you from
- [_The_Piper_] and the S.O.D. BBS
- Network!
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