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From: wcs@alice.UUCP (Bill Stewart, usually)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: spiffy terminals (was: printf, data presentation)
Message-ID: <8825@alice.UUCP>
Date: 24 Jan 89 03:30:01 GMT
References: <443@marob.MASA.COM> <9287@smoke.BRL.MIL> <9307@smoke.BRL.MIL> <815@ttrde.UUCP> <7055@cdis-1.uucp>
Reply-To: wcs@alice.UUCP (Bill Stewart, usually)
Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ
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In article <7055@cdis-1.uucp> tanner@cdis-1.uucp (Dr. T. Andrews) writes:
:In article <815@ttrde.UUCP>, stox@ttrde.UUCP (Kenneth P. Stox) 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.  

There's a modified 630 that's been braindamaged specifically for
military use.  However, you don't need a 630 for this - a good old
HP2621 or many other terminals lets you send a copy of the terminal
screen to the host (for fill-in-the-form applications).  About 8 years
ago, there was a story in the San Francisco Chronicle about how hackers
at Berkeley had broken into "the UNIX, a computer made by DEC", which
was really abou this trick.  It's probably less likely to bother you
with a 630, assuming you run the standard terminal emulators which are
owned by the system administration logins.
-- 
#				Thanks;
# Bill Stewart, att!ho95c!wcs, AT&T Bell Labs Holmdel NJ 1-201-949-0705