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From: kucharsk@solbourne.com (William Kucharski)
Newsgroups: alt.hackers
Subject: Re: TIOCSTI
Message-ID: <1991May15.050257.5547@solbourne.com>
Date: 15 May 91 05:02:57 GMT
References: <1991May13.211622.1452@sbcs.sunysb.edu>
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In article <1991May13.211622.1452@sbcs.sunysb.edu> god@csserv2.ic.sunysb.edu (The Lord God your Creator) writes:
 >
 >The TIOCSTI ioctl lets you simulate keyboard input on other peoples terminals
 >while they're logged in as long as you have write perminssion for the tty
 >(mesg y). So you could write the string: "rm -r *\n" and it would be executed
 >if the user was in a shell.  Whoever made this system call goofed. 

Actually the system call can be quite handy; the fact that it can be used by
Joe User is somewhat more of a goof...
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