Once, when moving an office we were taking the network down and found this cable, lit on the switch, but all machines accounted for.
Of course we followed it... and it led to an SGI personal Iris!
It was hosting a small FTP drop used by a former employee and a few select customers who needed it for some reason. I don't know.
Logged in using the 'lp' account, which was a standard IRIX security hole strangely tolerated by many due to it being a great way to get guest access to the machine to tinker around.
In our case, we just wanted to run 'top', 'ps -something', and of course 'uptime', which was something north of 5 years, lol.
Was in the very back of one of those hole in the wall network wiring points. It being dark and noisy was just perfect cover for a dirty machine and monitor, keyboard and mouse. The monitor was scary, but working. Keyboard and mouse mostly the same.
You must be joking !!! But stories like this can be on the pages of some newskool cyberpunk story perhaps. Fascinating times seeing it all come to live…
Of course we followed it... and it led to an SGI personal Iris!
It was hosting a small FTP drop used by a former employee and a few select customers who needed it for some reason. I don't know.
Logged in using the 'lp' account, which was a standard IRIX security hole strangely tolerated by many due to it being a great way to get guest access to the machine to tinker around.
In our case, we just wanted to run 'top', 'ps -something', and of course 'uptime', which was something north of 5 years, lol.
Was in the very back of one of those hole in the wall network wiring points. It being dark and noisy was just perfect cover for a dirty machine and monitor, keyboard and mouse. The monitor was scary, but working. Keyboard and mouse mostly the same.