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DEC20 lore

#544
From: jha... Joseph H Allen
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 1989 03:30
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Last year WPI replaced its DECsystem-20 with a UNIX machine.  Anyway, a poem
was written descibing one interesting bit of hacking that was done on that
machine:

You know PBIN and PBOUT and ACCES and CFORK
	COMND and PMAP and TLINK and TFORK
But do you recall the most famous JSYS of all....

	MONRD the priveleged JSYS
	Had a nasty checksum call
	And if you ever cracked it
	Your account would surely fall.

	All of the other JSYS
	Were easy as it goes to use
	But if you tried with MONRD
	You were guarenteed to lose.

	Then one evening Ralf and Ron
	Thought it good to try
	"We will get that MONRD out
	Or we'll surely die."

	Then AEJ was vengeful
	"Both of you deserve to go."
	But somehow, Ralf did save them
	How?  I guess we'll never know!

				-Don'T
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Anyone know of other system calls with (36-bit) passwords...
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From: jha...@wpi.wpi.edu (Joseph H Allen)
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Subject: DEC20 lore
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