Next Previous Contents 30. This section deals with hacking Unix systems remotely. A remote hack is when you attack the server you are not logged into. We'll assume you don't know an account name and password on the remote system.
Remote hacks come in a couple of different flavors.
Also, certain daemons running might be subject to buffer overflows remotely, allowing someone from a remote location run arbitrary commands on the victim's server. Quickly, you create a fred account on badguy. It does a buffer overflow trick, you compile it and name it sploit.