[sirsinsalot]

Novell Netware had a similar bug circa 1998 whereby pressing `F1` at the login screen of the terminal opened the help dialog, which opened links in IE ... from there the main Windows shell could be ran and bingo ... you're in.

[TedDoesntTalk]

I never saw IE or Windows running on Novell Netware. It was a server operating system. What you’re saying is akin to saying you can create a windows shell from inside linux.

[brk]

The Netware backend server was it's own OS, IIRC. However on the client side, you had MS-DOS and Windows Netware clients to login to the Novell server and access the associated shared resources.

[TedDoesntTalk]

Right, but those clients weren’t “Novell netware”.

[sirsinsalot]

The windows client login and resource control was branded as such tho

[yesbabyyes]

I think what they mean is the Netware login dialogue, on Windows. My classmate hacked our high school's network, getting him thrown out of class. I'm pretty sure he used a different method, though. He got a job working for the school. This was in the mid 90s.

[mandevil]

Colonial? (This definitely happened at my school, wondering how common this was.)

[yesbabyyes]

This was in Stockholm, Sweden. I'm not sure how it was done, but I imagine it involved the SAM file and Jack the Ripper or something along those lines.

[bparsons]

This brought back many fond memories of using this hack to play Soldier of Fortune 2 on the school network.