Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!dino!sharkey!msuinfo!rang From: rang@cs.wisc.edu (Anton Rang) Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals Subject: Re: Finding Passwords Summary: Hacks are getting worse.... Message-ID: Date: 11 Oct 90 18:49:10 GMT References: <24752@adm.BRL.MIL> Sender: news@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu Organization: UW-Madison CS department Lines: 15 In-Reply-To: emsca!usb!poc@sun.com's message of 11 Oct 90 15:00:59 GMT In article <24752@adm.BRL.MIL> emsca!usb!poc@sun.com writes: >A simpler solution is this: any non-privileged process writing a BEL >(Ctrl-G) to the terminal has it duplicated in the tt output queue, i.e. > write (1, "\007", 1); >has the effect of > write (1, "\007\007", 2); >Privileged processes on the other hand do not suffer this modification. Eesh. Seems like an even worse hack to me. For one thing, every time the computer beeps at me it'll do it twice now. More importantly, the terminal I'm using at this very instant doesn't distinguish a single beep and two beeps in a row, at high baud rates.... Anton +---------------------------+------------------+-------------+ | Anton Rang (grad student) | rang@cs.wisc.edu | UW--Madison | +---------------------------+------------------+-------------+