Hi, I’m not sure if this is the right place to post this, I think someone is attempting a takeover of sdf-eu.org by social engineering.
A user named wheel is posting on bboard that smj has passed away, with a link to an obituary as well as a bunch of extremely unhinged stuff about soviets, russians, and smj owing them money?
uinfo says:
➜ ~ uinfo wheel
Created: Thu Jun 29 17:28:01 UTC 2023 o
Here are some of the posts on bboard:
General/1
TACKER: wheel ()
SUBJECT: .. ARPA membership on SDFeu vs SDF
DATE: 26-Jul-23 21:47:24
HOST: odin
smj, died.
I'm trying to pull his work back together, fixing the system..
I'll show you how to get access after the wigger sovidog pirate are asleep.
[o;-)
~,
wheel@sdfeu.org
General/2
TACKER: wheel ()
SUBJECT: New Religion, in basic.
DATE: 26-Jul-23 23:41:49
HOST: odin
new
cls
10 smile at god through the top of your head like a good little
mushroom, instead of talking.
20 consider working for such, since existant
or not, has a bigger wallet than you, and false hope is still broke and in
the hole.
30 goto 10
run
rerun
General/6
TACKER: wheel ()
SUBJECT: QUARUM VOTE
DATE: 26-Jul-23 22:00:09
HOST: odin
Quarum Topic: After smj, founder of sdf, a computer people related
community, with free public unix/linux (netbsd currently), as the first
black man to produce such, proving such, died, crappy soviet wiggers tried
to steal his work, priviteising to their collection of public access
servers, disabled, used for illegal phishing purpose. http://is.gd/sdf_smj
Since all members of sdf could have easily sided with me instead of stupid
soviet pirates getting deported, ..I might redo sdf completely, seeing as
how, none of you were and still aren't on his side, and all have TOS
violations on record, setting all of your *:* to *:new and you're
directories 000 ... not sure just what else yet,.. ..but as for the really
ugly soviets working against smj's work, and every work, as wigger pirate
tend to,... Vote.. (actually I don't really believe you have much of a say,
but lets see how you feel?
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Requests/1
TACKER: wheel ()
SUBJECT: smj
DATE: 26-Jul-23 17:44:25
HOST: odin
Steven M. Jones June 25, 1962 - Sep 8, 2014 https://is.gd/sdf_smj
I'm needing one of you to change my shell from psh to bash.
..if this doesn't happen very soon, all of you get TOS violations reviewed,
etc...
smj died oweing me money and services, soviets deleted my account and tried
to steal sdf. [o;-)
~,
Hunter Reon Barnes
wheel@sdfeu.org
There’s more, since the user is new, it is highly likely that it is a joke, but I want to be cautious and throw out a warning in case it is not.
Been a lot of trolls in COM lately. Probably one of them.
Is that why I get a ‘% buss error’ when I try to run it? I’m not validated, though I sent in a donation for an ARPA membership a couple weeks ago. I read various places you could use com without being validated, but sadly it looks like a no. I’ve looked into the BBS, but there’s not much activity there, and I’ve not found any mention of being able to use com as an unvalidated user one way or another, or a mention of the error I get when I try to run it. I get a similar error when trying to run irc on the weekend, except that it’s ‘% bus era’ instead of ‘error’, which i thought was a bit odd.
There really doesn’t seem to be much for someone to do if they’re not validated. Anyone know how long it usually takes?
@constantokra @deepthaw not on EU, but my account before validation was able to use com
Thanks for the info. I’m not on EU either. I’ve logged in from TTY.sdf.org and been connected to several different servers, with the same results. I would have thought com was accessible, given various things i’ve read. I guess they’ve tightened up security to the excent that you can’t use com until validated.
The documentation, though copious, is pretty fragmented and sometimes decades out of date. I’ve found it really challenging to figure out how to do things, and what things i’m allowed to do. I can’t even chmod my ssh folder so I can put in my public keys. Psh, or whatever the unvalidated user shell is called, is extremely limited. Running commands it says i’m explicitly allowed to use frequently redirects to a different command or gives an error. I wish it would just redirect to something that says unvalidated users don’t have access so i’d know what’s going on. I’m not new to Unix clis, but it’s rather confusing anyway. Anyway, it’s nof turning out to be the welcoming atmosphere I expected from the available documentation, mostly because i’m blocked from communicating with anyone on the platform.
@constantokra yes, the documentation is pretty fragmented and outdated.
What you are describing is indeed weird, I’ve never heard something like that happen to anyone.
If the shell doesn’t work for you maybe you can try emailing the administrator about your situation, and have you tried the same with a brand new account?
Yep. Same with a new account
rie:/sdf/udd/s/[user]> com % buss era. rie:/sdf/udd/s/[user]> irc NOTE: To get to the secret private chat, type 'com' next time! -=- Basic IRC Commands -=- /list - List channels /join #channel - Join a channel /list #channel - Leave a channel /msg nick msg - Send a private message /who - Who is on /quit - Quit IRC -(continue)- % bus error.It is weird isn’t it? Given the rest of the system behavior I would have expected the com command to redirect to the BBS or throw an error or something if I didn’t have access. At the very least I wouldn’t expect two similar errors with slightly different spelling for two different commands.
I’d been hoping when I was made an ARPA member and could change my shell it’d just fix it, but that hasn’t happened yet. I generally enjoy troubleshooting things, but obviously with an unvalidated shell my options for that are basically nonexistent. I guess I probably should compare with a fresh account.
Thanks for the advice!