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- Phreaking COSMOS
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- COSMOS is Bell's computer for handling information on customer lines,
- special services on lines, and orders to change line equipment, disconnect
- lines, etc. COSMOS stands for Computerized System for Mainframe Operations. It
- is based on the UNIX operating system and, depending upon the COSMOS and upon
- your access, has some, many, or no UNIX standard commands. COSMOS is powerful,
- but there is no reason to be afraid of it. This article will give some of the
- basic, pertinent info on how users get in, account format, and a few other
- goodies.
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- Password Identification
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- To get onto COSMOS you need a dialup, account, password, and wire center
- (WC). Wire centers are two letter codes that tell what section of the COSMOS
- you are in. There are different WC's f or different areas and groups of
- exchanges. Examples are PB, SR, LK, et c. Sometimes there are accounts that
- have no password; obviously such accounts are the easiest to hack.
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- Checking It Out
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- Let's suppose you have a COSMOS number which you obtained one way or
- another. The first thing to do would be to make sure it is really a COSMOS
- system, not some other Bell or AT&T computer. To do this, you would call it
- and connect your modem,, then hit some returns until you got a response. It
- should say:
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- ';LOGIN:' or 'NAME:'.
- If you enter some garbage it should say:
- 'PASSWORD:'.
- If you hit a return and it says 'WC?', it is a COSMOS system. If it says
- something like 'TA%' then you're in business. If it doesn't do any of the
- above, then it is either some other kind of system, or, if you're not getting
- anything at all, the dialup has probably gone bad.
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- Getting In
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- COSMOS has certain accounts that are usually on the system, one of which
- might not have a password. They consist of ROOT (most powerful and almost
- always on the system), SYS (second most powerful, still many privileges), BIN
- (a little less power), PREOP (a little less), and COSMOS (hardly any
- privileges, like a normal user). The way to tell if they have passwords is by
- entering accounts at the ';LOGIN:' or ' NAME:' prompt, and if it jumps straight
- to 'WC?', all you need is a WC to get in. But suppose all of the accounts have
- passwords? You have two choices. You can try to hack the password and WC to
- one of the above accounts. I won't deal with this method, as is
- self-explanatory. Or you can do something I find much easier...call the
- COSMOS during business hours and hope that someone forgot to log off. Keep
- calling until when you connect and hit return until you get a 'WC%' prompt.
- 'WC' is the WC that the account you found is currently in. You are now in!
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- What to Do while on-line
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- The first thing you want to do is write down the WC you are in. Only on our
- first login it is a good idea to print everything or dump everything to a
- buffer.
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- Commands
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- 'WCFLDS'(!) : Should list all WC's.
- 'WHO' : Should print everyone currently logged on the system, giving
- some accounts.
- 'TTY' : Tells what terminal port you are on.
- 'WHERE' : Should tell the location of the COSMOS installation.
- 'WHAT' : Tells what version of COSNIX, COSMOS's operating system, it
- is.
- 'LS *' : Prints all the files you have access to.
- 'CD /dir' : Connects you to the directory '/dir'.
- 'CAT filename ' : Prints the file 'filename'.
- 'Q' : Quits the editor.
- CTRL- Y. : Logs off
- 'TAT' : Sometimes prints a little help file.
- 'ISH' : Check someone's telefone #, type 'ISH' at the COSMOS 'WC%'
- prompt. Then type.
- 'HTN XXX-XXXX' : (Hunt Telephone Number) to tell you about the local number
- you are interested in.
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- 'CAT /ETC/PASSWD': Prints out the password file, if you have access. The
- passwords are almost always encrypted, but you get a list of all the accounts.
- If you are lucky, one of the lines will have two colons after the account name.
- This means there is no prompt from the ';LOGIN:' or 'NAME:' prompts when you
- enter that account.
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- To run a file just type the name followed by a return.
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- When the system gives you a '-', you type a '.', and it will type all kinds
- of info on the phone number you entered (in Bell abbreviations, of course). If
- it is not a good exchange, it will say something to that effect. You type a
- period to end the ISH.
- If you wish to learn more information about COSMOS, find yourself a COSMOS
- manual or look at future issues of 2600. A UNIX manual would also be helpful
- for standard UNIX commands.
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