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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. | ||
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===Friday Morning === | |||
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* 10:32 - access to the network is cut off. | * 10:32 - access to the network is cut off. | ||
=== 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 | ||
=== 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. | 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. | ||
=== 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. | ||
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=== 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 get a different kernel. | 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 get a different kernel. | ||
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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. | ||
I fell asleep on the bus back from work, and woke up at Ballymun shopping center. | |||
Murphy still refuses to work | Murphy still refuses to work | ||
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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. | |||
=== 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. | |||