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From: tchrist@convex.UUCP (Tom Christiansen)
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Subject: Re: who, me?
Keywords: security, virus, summer job
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Date: 16 Nov 88 11:32:01 GMT
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In article <2975@ci.sei.cmu.edu> pdb@sei.cmu.edu (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.

sadly, only the first condition need be satisfied, which is the whole problem.

--tom

    Tom Christiansen              {uiucdcs,ut-sally,sun}!convex!tchrist 
    Convex Computer Corporation                     tchrist@convex.COM
	UNIX Support, Training, and System Administration
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