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From: tanner@cdis-1.uucp (Dr. T. Andrews)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: spiffy terminals (was: printf, data presentation)
Summary: security problem: 630 is programmable
Message-ID: <7055@cdis-1.uucp>
Date: 11 Jan 89 14:26:39 GMT
References: <443@marob.MASA.COM> <9287@smoke.BRL.MIL> <9307@smoke.BRL.MIL> <815@ttrde.UUCP>
Organization: CompuData Inc, DeLand
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In article <815@ttrde.UUCP>, stox@ttrde.UUCP (Kenneth P. Stox) writes:
) In article <9307@smoke.BRL.MIL>, gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn ) writes:
) [deleted a wonderful list of 630 features] ...
) 630 is programmable.

What this means, in short, is that you can write a program to have
this terminal send anything you want.  Send the proper escape
sequence to it when someone is su "root", and you've just programmed
it to send commands to allow unpassworded root access.

Those especially concerned with security (eg: military types) may
want to avoid these terminals for this reason.  (Perhaps they can
find someone to mark up model 33's by 1000% or so? :-)
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