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- From : Digital Grindage
- Subj : Re: Hacking Renegade BBSes...
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- My favourite hack, albeit very old, was in default Renegade installations,
- any user had access to the Archive Menu out of the File menu. Pressing F /A
- /A out of the Main Menu (if the SysOp hadn't changed any menus or disabled
- the Archive Menu) got you to the Backup and Restore menu that allowed you to
- .ZIP up multiple files in the files area, so instead of downloading 50 small
- files, you could .ZIP them all up and download one big .ZIP file.
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- The problem with this was, Renegade didn't chroot (oh, wait, that's a UNIX
- term most BBS hackers won't recognize) the Archive menu so it only had
- access to branches out of the Files directory, so you could easily .ZIP up
- \RG\DATA\USERS.DAT, or any other file on the system for that matter.
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- "Your information is mine for free. But everything I can grab is secret
- unless you have something I want which can't be free-loaded, stolen or
- found somewhere else." - George C. Smith, The Virus Creation Labs
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