lock bugs and fixes
utzoo!decvax!harpo!alb
utzoo!decvax!harpo!alb
Sat Apr 24 10:55:54 AEST 1982
The program lock should disallow locking up a terminal owned by
root, since someone can come along with the master key, unlock
the terminal, and play around to his/her heart's content. The
fix is very simple: Before it goes through the for loop for
ignoring signals, add the lines:
if (getuid() == 0) {
fprintf(stderr, "you have too many privileges to be locked.\n");
exit(0);
}
[Some systems also have special groups of people in /etc/group that
can automatically become root in some way or another. For these
systems, I have prepared routines that check the real user (as found
in utmp) and then check to see is he/she is in that group. If he/she
is, it won't lock up either. Any who wants these should mail me (I'm not
posting them since not everyone needs them.)]
Another problem I found was that with the new tty driver, ^Z effectively
unlocks the terminal, since it puts lock into the background. Again, the
fix is simple. Change the line reading:
for (t = 1; t <= 16; t++)
to:
for (t = 1; t <= 18; t++)
Does anyone see anything wrong with these?
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