Re: Logging into a NetBSD VAX session and then being logged out

[Thomas <tzubin%gmail.com@localhost>]

I did something similar under OpenVMS as an April fools joke about 20
years ago, but I'm not sure how you'd do it under BSD.

Probably just forking off another shell with stdin and stdout and then
the parent process has a timer and kills itself after a minute?

Thomas Dzubin
Calgary, Saskatoon, or Vancouver CANADA

On Sat, Feb 24, 2018 at 8:18 AM, Gregg Levine <gregg.drwho8%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
> Hello!
> In the book "Cuckoo's Egg" Cliff Stoll describes the guest account on
> the UCB VAX systems. And further he describes that the login function
> would allow someone do so via the login of guest and password of guest
> and that the account would be timed to run for a minute. Now as I
> recall he wasn't sure how much someone could do within a minute of
> system time, where they cost (then) about $300 per hour, (which of
> course if someone presses me on that I'll have to look it up). And
> naturally the school figured it would be good publicity.
>
> Now that was on 4.2 (or 4.3, or 4.1) BSD on the VAX and a good twenty
> or more years later of course.
>
> Now my question, how could a running system be so configured?
>
> Suffice to say it would be running on SIMH simulating a VAX, and on a
> Pi2. My next big problem would be what to do next after that, but the
> big sticking point is getting the simulation to do that.
> -----
> Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8%gmail.com@localhost
> "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."