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From: richard@pegasus.uucp (Richard Foulk)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: screen
Message-ID: <1990Jan9.212532.14606@pegasus.uucp>
Date: 9 Jan 90 21:25:32 GMT
References: <2895@hub.UUCP>
Reply-To: richard@pegasus.UUCP (Richard Foulk)
Organization: Pegasus, Honolulu
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In article <2895@hub.UUCP> 6500gsv@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu writes:
>My local sysadmin does not want to install screen for me because he does
>not have the time to examine the code for security bugs.  If
>adminstrators who have put this code up would be so kind as to send mail
>to me listing either the bugs they've found or the lack thereof, I may
>be able to convince him that the code is secure without pouring over it
>line by line (and at 75k of code, that will take a while)
>

Screen does not have to be installed with root priviledges, why
not install it yourself.
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Richard Foulk		richard@pegasus.uucp
			richard%pegasus.uucp@nosc.mil
			richard@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu