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== Timeline of Events == | |||
In an attempt to procrastinate from real work I've tried to document what happened on the week of no sleep, and insane amounts of coke. To give a bit of background, the hack happened just a few weeks after myself and johan were elected, lil_cain was the third admin, and werdz had recently moved from admin to webmaster. All of us were working full time on Intra, except for cian, who had a real job. Murphy was the main web server, running Ubuntu 6.06. Minerva was the main login server, also running Ubuntu. | In an attempt to procrastinate from real work I've tried to document what happened on the week of no sleep, and insane amounts of coke. | ||
To give a bit of background, the hack happened just a few weeks after myself and johan were elected, lil_cain was the third admin, and werdz had recently moved from admin to webmaster. All of us were working full time on Intra, except for cian, who had a real job. Murphy was the main web server, running Ubuntu 6.06. Minerva was the main login server, also running Ubuntu. | |||
Mostly, I've pieced this together from memory, email and irc logs. Some other people who were there may be able to fill in more of the details. | |||
--receive (May 2009) | --receive (May 2009) | ||
===Friday Morning === | |||
* Around 8.30am (ish) - People start to notice something is up. Most people are on the way to work and stuff. Pretty sure I got a text on the bus, can't remember who from. | * Around 8.30am (ish) - People start to notice something is up. Most people are on the way to work and stuff. Pretty sure I got a text on the bus, can't remember who from. | ||
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* 10:30 - final mass hey goes out before shutdown | * 10:30 - final mass hey goes out before shutdown | ||
* 10:32 - access to the network is cut off. | * 10:32 - access to the network is cut off. A few root holders take refuge in #blueblock on irc.linux.ie to discuss meeting later on. | ||
=== Friday Afternoon === | |||
D_fens, svan & drag0n go down to the server room and start tracing through the rest of the logs. The rest of us can't do much with no access. | D_fens, svan & drag0n go down to the server room and start tracing through the rest of the logs. The rest of us can't do much with no access. | ||
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Secretary@redbrick.dcu.ie | Secretary@redbrick.dcu.ie | ||
The admins meet up in DCU about 5/6pm. Atlas also comes down. There is much drawing on a whiteboard about what our plans should be. Most of the night is spent taking backups. | === Friday Evening === | ||
The admins meet up in DCU about 5/6pm. Atlas also comes down. There is much drawing on a whiteboard about what our plans should be. Most of the night is spent taking backups. Getting some sort of mail processing in place is a priority, as we're not sure how long HEAnet/DCU will store our incoming mail for before giving up. Minerva's OS (and feck all else) is wiped and reinstalled by around midnight (after some extremely odd keyboard controller-related difficulties), and by the time we leave at around 1am, Deathray (not quite reinstalled, but isolated as much as possible from everything) is routing mail to inboxes. | |||
=== Saturday === | |||
We meet up again in DCU early on Saturday and start the re-install process. One of the red dells is setup to allow admins external access to the network so stuff can be done remotely. | We meet up again in DCU early on Saturday and start the re-install process. One of the red dells is setup to allow admins external access to the network so stuff can be done remotely. | ||
Murphy continues to be shit. | |||
Cynic is re-installed with solaris, and DNS moves there. | Cynic is re-installed with solaris, and DNS moves there. | ||
=== Sunday === | |||
Minerva is finished off on Sunday. We also started scripting people's web directories back to normal. Temporary ldap is setup on one of the red Dells. | Minerva is finished off on Sunday. We also started scripting people's web directories back to normal. Temporary ldap is setup on one of the red Dells. | ||
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===Monday === | |||
Halenger builds ircd on minerva. Ubuntu starts working on carbon on Monday evening, after we discover that the ubuntu-server kernel hates the disk controller, and | Halenger builds ircd on minerva. Ubuntu starts working on carbon on Monday evening, after we discover that the ubuntu-server kernel hates the disk controller, and manually install a different kernel using a rescue shell. | ||
The new passwords went out on Monday. This required some epic hack scripting, since useradm was on one of the shite reddells, but that couldn't send email. | The new passwords went out on Monday. This required some epic hack scripting, since useradm was on one of the shite reddells, but that couldn't send email. | ||
=== Tuesday === | |||
Phaxx gets IMAP working on minerva on Tuesday afternoon. | Phaxx gets IMAP working on minerva on Tuesday afternoon. | ||
Murphy still refuses to work | I fell asleep on the bus back from work, and woke up at Ballymun shopping center. | ||
Murphy still refuses to work. The Ubuntu installer CD refuses to talk to the upgraded version of the T2000 firmware (which we were told to upgrade by the installation instructions). | |||
{0} ok WORK DAMN YOU | {0} ok WORK DAMN YOU | ||
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At this point, Deathray hadn't been touched yet, since mail needed to be migrated before that could happen, and Murphy was generally being a cunt, and wasn't working at all. | At this point, Deathray hadn't been touched yet, since mail needed to be migrated before that could happen, and Murphy was generally being a cunt, and wasn't working at all. | ||
=== Wednesday === | |||
I make some progress beating boards into working over the afternoon, it finally starts working properly about 7pm | |||
Phaxx & atlas come to DCU to help make exim and mailman work. We also eat chinese. | |||
I (werdz) think it was around now (possibly Thursday or Friday) that I got ubuntu installed on murphy. Manually. After downgrading the firmware to version Poxy.ancient. The installer didn't seem to want to work at all (can't remember the exact list of problems), so it was installed using a rescue shell to create partitions, dpkg-bootstrap the system and install frivolous things like the kernel manually. Once this was done, Ubuntu booted, and things generally worked, but the serial console (well... what you got by typing console -f into the ALOM) randomly locked up. And some other things randomly broke. We decided this level of reliability wasn't what we were looking for in an OS. See [[Murphy]] for the rest of this epic tale, and how it eventually ended up with Solaris 10, a full year later. | |||
=== Thursday === | |||
Svan gets fap working, and and syslog-ng doing remote logging. | |||
=== Friday === | |||
Get mailman working about 1am. Continue testing mail and stuff until about 2/3am | |||
==== Saturday ==== | ==== Saturday ==== | ||
Go down to dcu about 10am to put all the cables back to normal, and let users login again. Security finally let us in at about 12.30 | |||
SSH access to minerva is allowed again about 8pm, and the mail goes out shortly after. | |||
From: Andrew Harford | From: Andrew Harford | ||
Sent: Saturday, May 3, 2008 | Sent: Saturday, May 3, 2008 23:10:06 +0100 | ||
Subject: RedBrick Online | Subject: RedBrick Online | ||
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andrew. | andrew. | ||
.. | |||
=== Sunday === | |||
Welmar is backed up, and re-installed, followed by Obelisk. Anyterm starts working again late Sunday night. | |||
=== Monday === | |||
Monday was a bank-holiday, so we got into DCU about midday. | |||
We backed-up the rest of the stuff on Deathray, and re-installed that on Monday afternoon. Bitlbee was also setup late Monday night. | |||
== The simplified version == | |||
[[Image:GreatHack.jpg]] | |||
[[Category:Redbrick History]] | |||
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