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So where can you find these ISPs that will give you shell
accounts? One good source is http://www.celestin.com/pocia/.
It provides links to Internet Service Providers categorized by
geographic region. They even have links to allow you to sign
up with ISPs serving the Lesser Antilles!
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Evil Genius tip: Computer criminals and malicious hackers will
often get a guest account on a distant ISP and do their dirty
work during the few hours this guest account is available to
them. Since this practice provides the opportunity to cause so
much harm, eventually it may become really hard to get a test
run on a guest account.
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But if you want to find a good shell account the hacker way,
here's what you do. Start with a list of your favorite hacker
Web sites. For example, let's try http://ra.nilenet.com/~mjl/hacks/codez.htm.
You take the beginning part of the URL (Uniform Resource Locator)
as your starting point. In this case it is "http://ra.nilenet.com."
Try surfing to that URL. In many cases it will be the home page
for that ISP. It should have instructions for how to sign up
for a shell account. In the case of Nile Net we strike hacker
gold:
Dial-up Accounts and Pricing
NEXUS
Accounts
NEXUS Accounts include: Access to a UNIX Shell, full
Internet access, Usenet newsgroups, 5mb of FTP and/or
WWW storage space, and unlimited time.
One Time Activation Fee: $20.00
Monthly Service Fee: $19.95 or
Yearly Service Fee: $199.95
Plus which they make a big deal over freedom of online speech.
And they host a great hacker page full of these Guides to (mostly)
Harmless Hacking!
How to Login to Your Shell Account
Now we assume you finally have a guest shell account and are
ready to test drive it. So now we need to figure out how to login.
Now all you hacker geniuses reading this, why don't you just
forget to flame me for telling people how to do something as
simple as how to login. Please remember that everyone has a first
login. If you have never used Unix, this first time can be intimidating.
In any case, if you are a Unix genius you have no business reading
this Beginners' Guide. So if you are snooping around here looking
for flamebait, send your flames to /dev/null.
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Newbie note: "Flames" are insulting, obnoxious rantings
and ravings done by people who are severely lacking in social
skills and are a bunch of &$%@#!! but who think they are
brilliant computer savants. For example, this newbie note is
my flame against &$%@#!! flamers.
"/dev/null" stands for "device null."
It is a file name in a Unix operating system. Any data that is
sent to /dev/null is discarded. So when someone says they will
put something in "/dev/null" that means they are sending
it into permanent oblivion.
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The first thing you need to know in order to get into your
shell account is your user name and password. You need to get
that information from the ISP that has just signed you up. The
second thing you need to remember is that Unix is "case
sensitive." That means if your login name is "JoeSchmoe"
the shell will think "joeschmoe" is a different person
than "JoeSchmoe" or "JOESCHMOE."
(I get really tired of people emailing
me to say they can't get a user name and password that works
on their shell account. They should call their ISP to get that
information, not me! Of course I'm not going to give out valid
username/password combinations! Sheesh!)
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