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I was wondering if anyone knew how to get a Shell acount with At&T Cable Internet (ATTBI)?

No telnet servers are allowed with AT&T broadband connections. http://www.attbroadband.com/services/products/SecurityViolations.jhtml

And don't ask here for help to commit a crime.

Actually, do ask here for help when commiting a crime - it's a lot easier to catch criminals when they leave breadcrumbs the size of planetoids.

...which isn't to say that counterfeitbacon here was trying to commit a crime...

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Methinks that counterfeit doesn't understand what he's asking.



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cb, what are you trying to do?


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Heh.. this guy on arstechnica once let anyone on the forum get a shell account on his unix (or bsd) machine so he could get practice administrating it.

I wonder what kind of shananigans that led to...

Actually there are sites where you can subscribe for a shell-account yearly.
This way you learn the unix enviroment without having linux or freebsd installed.

You can get some for free...

is FreePort still online?

what was that, http://www.freeport.org or something?


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[This message has been edited by Petskull (edited 09-15-2002).]

PS: Were you thinking of:
www.freeshell.org

For a list see here:
www.freebelt.com/freeshells.html

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Acutally, I'm reading a book on computer security, and it recomends that you get a Linux shell account to work with. I currently have a slightly knowledgable view on what one is, but computer security, hacking etc is a subject that interests me at the time, and i was wondering if (since the book said you should get one) if AT@T Broadband offered one, because I know that they used to

You need to read more. ATTBI has never given out shell accounts. And in fact when they were part of the @home network port 23 was blocked. Shell accounts consist of giving you telnet access to a server and that begins to ceate some risk to the server. There is no reason you need this access and no reason for them to give it to you. What you need to do is set up a Linux box at home and access that. Or search for someone on google who may have a junk box they don't care about open somewhere on the internet.

I have shell access to my school and work servers but those are special cases though you could try your school.



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I think you might be wrong about @home. I'm pretty sure that they *used* to allow people to run shells for other people. You just had to call them to set it up.

Well, I got my friend to lend me his old Linux Box, I never knew that just the security (not hacking) side of everything was so interesting!

Not when I worked there (1999-2000) and not the cable systems that were supported in house. There may have been some cable systems that did this since not all were entirely run by @home. But we were supporting TCI at that point which is now ATT.

We had a bunch of calls from pissed off geeks who needed Telnet access for whatever reason however the TOS we used didn't actually allow this.



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in my experience, when a book or another such long-term resource infoms you about stuff like this, it's probably out of date...

..just try connecting to any of those servers on the Happy Hacker backlogs..


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