For many years, demidevimon was a server of various kinds and the gateway through which the computers on my home network accessed the Internet.
demidevimon is an Intergraph TD-310, bought at a garage sale of Name Brand Computer Outlet (now apparently defunct). He is the twin brother of malcolm.
demidevimon holds a special place in my heart, because it is the first computer on which I installed a full GNU/Linux operating system from source (this before Linux From Scratch existed). This was a tremendous learning experience for me. Doing this a few times more on other computers led me to look for a way to automate the process somewhat, which in turn led to the creation of Gusto GNU/Linux.
To celebrate the successful completion of the laborious process of installing an operating system by hand, I created this small piece of ASCII art:
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This is demidevimon.bamsoftware.com.
This is the /etc/issue file on demidevimon and used to be prominently displayed on the home page of this web site.
I had what was at the time my best game of NetHack on Demidevimon:
No Points Name Hp [max]
1 1220031 david-Val-Dwa-Fem-Law escaped the dungeon [max level
28]. 185 [185]
Some time in the summer of 2001 the hard drive holding the web pages and my programs suffered a head crash. (demidevimon was my primary computer at the time.) This was followed by a lot of work with dd and xxd to recover what data I could from the undamaged sectors. During this period I learned more than I ever wanted to know about the Second Extended Filesystem. I have forgotten most of it now, though.
demidevimon is named after my favorite Digimon character. Demidevimon was a bad-guy Digimon who was eventually eaten by his boss, VenomMyotismon.
descrypt and solitairecrypt were written on demidevimon.
I wiped and removed demidevimon's disks and put him in the garage to await recycling in the early hours of April 14, 2008.
demidevimon was broken into around June and July, 2006. I had left sshd running to allow password authentication and my mysql user had a guessable password. The attacker installed some files in /tmp, in a directory with the invisible filename of " " (a single space character). These files were
/tmp/ : total 548 -rw-r--r-- 1 mysql mysql 382466 Jul 5 17:16 MuiPay.tgz drwxr-xr-x 2 mysql mysql 1024 Jul 6 10:02 br drwxr-xr-x 2 mysql mysql 1024 Jul 6 10:07 eb drwxr-xr-x 2 mysql mysql 1024 Jul 6 10:51 send -rw-r--r-- 1 mysql mysql 170366 Jul 5 17:01 sendP61.tgz /tmp/ /br: total 380 -rw-r--r-- 1 mysql mysql 724 Feb 16 2001 ini.inc -rw-r--r-- 1 mysql mysql 213556 Jul 6 06:58 list.txt -rwxr-xr-x 1 mysql mysql 165596 Aug 21 2001 pico -rw-r--r-- 1 mysql mysql 1268 Feb 28 07:13 send.php -rw-r--r-- 1 mysql mysql 3829 Jul 6 04:50 test.txt /tmp/ /eb: total 1228 -rw-r--r-- 1 mysql mysql 724 Feb 16 2001 ini.inc -rw-r--r-- 1 mysql mysql 815742 Jun 3 17:58 list.txt -rwxr-xr-x 1 mysql mysql 165596 Aug 21 2001 pico -rwxr-xr-x 1 mysql mysql 249980 Feb 13 2001 screen -rw-r--r-- 1 mysql mysql 644 Jun 3 14:51 send.php -rw-r--r-- 1 mysql mysql 13356 Jun 3 16:01 test.txt /tmp/ /send: total 735 -rw-r--r-- 1 mysql mysql 4780 Jul 5 17:05 bla.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 mysql mysql 580 Jun 21 2005 ebay.php -rw-r--r-- 1 mysql mysql 724 Jun 16 2004 ini.inc -rw-r--r-- 1 mysql mysql 240617 Jul 5 17:12 list.txt -rwxr-xr-x 1 mysql mysql 165596 Aug 21 2001 pico -rw-r--r-- 1 mysql mysql 83375 Nov 23 2004 pico.tgz -rwxr-xr-x 1 mysql mysql 249980 Jul 5 17:14 screen
As far as I can tell, these files were used to send thousands of spam emails.