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Novell Netware had a similar bug circa 1998 whereby pressing `F1` at the login screen of the terminal opened the help dialog, which opened links in IE ... from
by sirsinsalot 4y ago
Novell Netware had a similar bug circa 1998 whereby pressing `F1` at the login screen of the terminal opened the help dialog, which opened links in IE ... from there the main Windows shell could be ran and bingo ... you're in.
- TedDoesntTalk 4y agoI never saw IE or Windows running on Novell Netware. It was a server operating system. What you’re saying is akin to saying you can create a windows shell from inside linux.
- brk 4y agoThe Netware backend server was it's own OS, IIRC. However on the client side, you had MS-DOS and Windows Netware clients to login to the Novell server and access the associated shared resources.
- TedDoesntTalk 4y agoRight, but those clients weren’t “Novell netware”.
- sirsinsalot 4y agoThe windows client login and resource control was branded as such tho
- yesbabyyes 4y agoI think what they mean is the Netware login dialogue, on Windows. My classmate hacked our high school's network, getting him thrown out of class. I'm pretty sure he used a different method, though. He got a job working for the school. This was in the mid 90s.
- mandevil 4y agoColonial? (This definitely happened at my school, wondering how common this was.)
- yesbabyyes 4y agoThis was in Stockholm, Sweden. I'm not sure how it was done, but I imagine it involved the SAM file and Jack the Ripper or something along those lines.
- bparsons 4y agoThis brought back many fond memories of using this hack to play Soldier of Fortune 2 on the school network.