spiffy terminals (was: printf, data presentation)

[Bill Stewart, usually]

In article <7055 at cdis-1.uucp> tanner at cdis-1.uucp (Dr. T. Andrews) writes:
:In article <815 at ttrde.UUCP>, stox at 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.
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#				Thanks;
# Bill Stewart, att!ho95c!wcs, AT&T Bell Labs Holmdel NJ 1-201-949-0705