Oh Yes !!!!
Couldn't blag my way out of it, but with a mate achieved the impossible!
Well in the mob young Gibbon was trying to script an disk writing utility. on this system (OS9) only supervisor modes could write out to a disk and we didn't want any old TDH being able to have super rights. So bright spark Gibbon comes up with a utility that a normal user uses but embedded in it it logs into super downloads to disk and logs out of super back to normal user. Hi ho tickety boo etc.
Well Gibbon being new to computing and an halfwit to boot did all this work in the supervisor login script!!!!!! So I then logged out...................................
When I logged back in as super all I could do was copy a disk or LOGOUT. Basically the super login script logged you straight back out via a disk copy!!!!
I went white purple red yellow and pulled up the courage to tell my Sgt. "You fecking idiot Gibbon" bellowed in my ears and I rang up OS9 support. I explained my problem and then there was silence.......... followed by some of the loudest laughing I've ever heard. " your flipped was the non-technical reply and you need a new system as it's impossible to sort that.
Gibbon was doomed and the firing squad beckoned....
Then like a knight in shining armour another senior rank reckoned we could sort it. Some how between the to of us on different terminals logged in as normal users we managed to suspend the super login, hack in and change the protection and then redit the login file. I can't remember how exactly but I do recall telling the support that their system wasn't very robust followed by a huge laugh. But to be honest it was one of relief mainly.
Couldn't blag my way out of it, but with a mate achieved the impossible!
Well in the mob young Gibbon was trying to script an disk writing utility. on this system (OS9) only supervisor modes could write out to a disk and we didn't want any old TDH being able to have super rights. So bright spark Gibbon comes up with a utility that a normal user uses but embedded in it it logs into super downloads to disk and logs out of super back to normal user. Hi ho tickety boo etc.
Well Gibbon being new to computing and an halfwit to boot did all this work in the supervisor login script!!!!!! So I then logged out...................................
When I logged back in as super all I could do was copy a disk or LOGOUT. Basically the super login script logged you straight back out via a disk copy!!!!
I went white purple red yellow and pulled up the courage to tell my Sgt. "You fecking idiot Gibbon" bellowed in my ears and I rang up OS9 support. I explained my problem and then there was silence.......... followed by some of the loudest laughing I've ever heard. " your flipped was the non-technical reply and you need a new system as it's impossible to sort that.
Gibbon was doomed and the firing squad beckoned....
Then like a knight in shining armour another senior rank reckoned we could sort it. Some how between the to of us on different terminals logged in as normal users we managed to suspend the super login, hack in and change the protection and then redit the login file. I can't remember how exactly but I do recall telling the support that their system wasn't very robust followed by a huge laugh. But to be honest it was one of relief mainly.
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