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In article <B9639BAE3F34504E83FEEDD71D4AFB46282CF2 at mail.bensene.com>, "Rick Bensene" <rickb at bensene.com> writes: As a 14 yr. old I once found a bug in RSTS. It turns out that when you submitted a batch job, it ran as user BATCH which was a priveleged user. Oops. I then proceeded to run a batch job that ran PASSWD and listed out all the accounts and their plaintext passwords :-). I discussed the interesting "bug" I found with some other users who wanted me to keep it quiet, but I reported it to the admins. I was rewarded by being made a priveleged user and being only 14 I abused it, of course :-). There was a CUSP called WATCH that would use PEEK to snoop the output buffers of another user's terminal. You could watch on your terminal what was coming out on their terminal. We had a locally modified version called FORCE that would also map your keyboard input into their input buffer. I ran FORCE and gave some random users a hard time by typing line-noise into their input just to be a pest. I lost my priveleged user status for that :-), IIRC. -- "The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline" -- DirectX 9 draft available for download <http://legalizeadulthood.wordpress.com/the-direct3d-graphics-pipeline/> Legalize Adulthood! <http://legalizeadulthood.wordpress.com>