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From: brad@altunv.UUCP (Brad Silva)
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Subject: Re: unix system enhancements
Message-ID: <19@altunv.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 6-Oct-86 19:13:18 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct  6 19:13:18 1986
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In article <1986Oct1.180413.29885@sq.uucp>, dave@sq.UUCP writes:
> 
> In article <702@hropus.UUCP> jrw@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

If anybody has a copy of this program I would be greatly interested in it, or
anything similar.  I occasionally have to help users through problems, or do
short training in various programs, and this would be VERY helpful.


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