Hacking Renegade BBS Systems
by Redwoods of Group 42
Renegade is one of the more common BBS systems being used. Renegade
is a hack of Telegaurd, and in the conversion the authors left a
bug that can allow you access to the renegade data files, user data
files, and the chat logs. All you need is a Renegade Mock Setup and
to follow these steps:
- Dial your target Renegade BSS.
- Logon. It is advised that you use a fake account and deleting the
logs when you're done.
- After you logon, make sure the sysop is not around. Check the
messages, play some door games to make it look normal. Page
the sysop to see if he's around. The best time to do this is
very late a night when the sysop is asleep.
- When ready, goto the file menu.
- In the file menu there is an option called /A. This is
the archive menu. This is where you will do your work on
compressed files and where you will do your hacking.
- From the archive menu select W to work on a file.
- Enter the name of the archive you wish to work on. This can be
any name followed by the extension of the file. .zip
is the best as most systems support it. What you will be doing
is adding the data files to a .zip file for later download.
- Now you have to add your files. You hit A to do this. When
it prompts you for files type ../../u*.dat. Next
type ../../r*.dat. And finally type ../../*.log.
- Now you have the data files and the chat logs in the archive. You
may now download the file which you have created.
- Once you have the files you need to set up a mock Renegade BBS to
view the files.
- Copy the renegade.dat to your main renegade directory and copy the
user files to x:\renegade\data, or whatever your renegade data
directory is.
- Start renegade using renegade /l to startup renegade in its
local mode.
- Goto the user setup and start writing down passwords. System passwords
are found in the system config section. You can logon as the
sysop, but to do so you will need his phone number, passowrd and
the system password. You can loook at the renegade.dat
file and find pards of passwords as well.