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From: osm@heifetz.UUCP (Owen Scott Medd)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: who, me?
Message-ID: <9@heifetz.UUCP>
Date: 16 Nov 88 14:38:48 GMT
References: <2975@ci.sei.cmu.edu> <793@mailrus.cc.umich.edu>
Reply-To: osm@heifetz.UUCP (Owen Scott Medd)
Organization: M & S Associates -- Ann Arbor, MI
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In article <793@mailrus.cc.umich.edu> honey@citi.umich.edu (peter honeyman) writes:
#Patrick Barron writes:
#>You can't necessarily TIOCSTI a terminal if you can write to it.  TIOCSTI
#>only works if 1) the terminal in question is your process's control terminal,
#>or 2) you're root.
#
#this doesn't work in 4.3 (i'm told), but it used to work in 4.1 and 4.2.
#i learned about it from rtm.

 [tty stuff program deleted...]

And, of course, this was discussed (and distributed) on the old security list.

A very useful thing for system administrators to know about, when strange
commands seem to be typing themselves on user's screens.
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