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From: avg@hq.demos.su (Vadim G. Antonov)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals
Subject: Re: Finding Passwords
Message-ID: <1990Oct10.180254.10515@hq.demos.su>
Date: 10 Oct 90 18:02:54 GMT
References: <652@puck.mrcu> <22024:Oct606:35:1090@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> <13@tdatirv.UUCP> <9105:Oct910:13:5190@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> <278@pdxgate.UUCP> <BZS.90Oct9150046@world.std.com>
Reply-To: avg@hq.demos.su (Vadim G. Antonov)
Organization: DEMOS, Moscow, USSR
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In article <BZS.90Oct9150046@world.std.com> bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein) writes:
>Wouldn't an uncatchable (except by a root process) SIGTSTOP character
>solve a lot of this relatively harmlessly?

Most of peoples will not to do it beacuse of laziness... etc. I'm quite
sure the protection is effective only when it's unavoidable (but reasonably
suitable in use, of course). Thus the system should force the user to
pass through security procedure before entering system.

(Curiousily, but I've inserted ^T in v6 tty driver, but later I removed it -
ps produces more readable output :-)

	Vadim Antonov
	DEMOS, Moscow, USSR
	(It is a joke!)