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From: jak@sactoh0.SAC.CA.US (Jay A. Konigsberg)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals
Subject: Re: Watch, Spy, whatever you wanna call it
Message-ID: <4042@sactoh0.SAC.CA.US>
Date: 24 Sep 90 06:04:10 GMT
References: <29835@netnews.upenn.edu>
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In article <29835@netnews.upenn.edu> kehoe@scotty.dccs.upenn.edu (Brendan Kehoe) writes:
>It, with a few privs, will let ya view a person's terminal as though you had
>the same one as him/her, and it'll also let you become interactive with it,
>as though it were them typing.
> Now, realize this is just for system admin purposes! (cough)

Generally, this would require a patch to the kernel. However, a 
simple way generally available only to administrators is to
splice the cable leading to the terminal you want to monitor.

This doesn't sound like its as versital as what you describe,
but its universally available.


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