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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