Finding Passwords

[Anton Rang]

In article <24752 at adm.BRL.MIL> emsca!usb!poc at sun.com writes:
>A simpler solution is this: any non-privileged process writing a BEL
>(Ctrl-G) to the terminal has it duplicated in the tt output queue, i.e.
>	write (1, "\007", 1);
>has the effect of
>	write (1, "\007\007", 2);
>Privileged processes on the other hand do not suffer this modification.

  Eesh.  Seems like an even worse hack to me.  For one thing, every
time the computer beeps at me it'll do it twice now.  More
importantly, the terminal I'm using at this very instant doesn't
distinguish a single beep and two beeps in a row, at high baud
rates....

	Anton
   
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| Anton Rang (grad student) | rang at cs.wisc.edu | UW--Madison |
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