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From: martin@iris.ucdavis.edu (Bruce K. Martin Jr.)
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Subject: Re: tty watcher
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Date: Thu, 17-Sep-87 20:57:13 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep 17 20:57:13 1987
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In article <15136@hi.UUCP> josh@hi.UUCP (Josh Siegel) writes:
>In article <4263@ozdaltx.UUCP> root@ozdaltx.UUCP (root) writes:
>>A while back I'd asked if anyone has an effective tty
>>watcher or "spy" program, or if they had suggestion as to
>>how such a thing could be accomplished.
>
>Very true.  Not a good idea.  There are lots of better ways
>of doing this.
>
True!

 
>It does exist in many forms...
>
>	1) Stealbuf -
>		This code reads the input buffers of
>		the user being watched and prints out
>		everything he/she is typing.  It doesn't
>		work if they are in raw mode.
>
>		I don't know who wrote it.
>

...stuff deleted...

>Before I get mail asking me for copies of the software,  let me
>state my policy.  I will not pass out stealbuf or eye to anybody.
>Stealbuf doesn't work on BSD43 and eye only works on Suns.  The
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>current version of eye is nothing but a machine cracker.  I don't
>see a reason to pass this around.
>
>-- 
>Josh Siegel		(siegel@hc.dspo.gov)
>  Friends don't let Friends eat Cherry Zingers

Not quite true.  We have successfully modified our home-grown version
of stealbuf to work on BSD4.3  (of course, I'm assuming that you can
read /dev/kmem)
				..bruce

Bruce K. Martin Jr.  UC. Davis Div of Computer Science
martin@iris.ucdavis.edu  --or--  {ucbvax | lll-crg}!ucdavis!iris!martin