If you happen to find a Sun Solaris server with a telnet daemon running, it is very likely that you can get superuser access on it by just typing:
$ telnet -l “-froot” server
where server is the server name. I was able to confirm this on a Solaris server nearby.
It’s amazing to see that this one [...]
If you are like me, spending a lot of time in the command line, you might be looking for ways to edit the command lines more efficiently. Many interactive UNIX programs implement line editing by using GNU’s readline library. This means that all these programs, which include the different shells, Python and many others, offer [...]