unix system enhancements
dave at sq.UUCP
dave at sq.UUCP
Thu Oct 2 08:04:13 AEST 1986
In article <702 at hropus.UUCP> jrw at hropus.UUCP (Jim Webb) writes:
>> 3. And lastly modify the tty driver to support "advising." This would
>> allow root to watch the characters sent to a terminal and have the
>> characters that he types inserted into that port's input character
>> stream.
>
> A hackers' delight, a simple rm -rf will remove this "advising" :-)
>--
>Jim Webb "Out of phase--get help" ...!ihnp4!hropus!jrw
A year or so ago a program called "force" was posted to
net.sources. (Sorry but author and date elude me)
This allowed for root to force characters, as if typed
by the user, to a particular tty.
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David R. Seaman !utzoo!sq!dave SoftQuad Publishing Software
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