unix system enhancements
Jim Webb
jrw at hropus.UUCP
Sun Sep 28 11:06:57 AEST 1986
> I am interested in enhancing my UNIX system to support the following, but
> beofre I start to work I would like to know if anyone has already done
> something similar:
>
> 1. Modify CSH so that it checks for the existence of a system wide
> .cshrc and .login (obviously they could have different names) before
> reading the users .cshrc and .login.
>
> 2. Modify /etc/login so that it checks a file to determine if
> the user is allowed to login over that line or network connection
> or dial-up port at that time of the day.
If you do 1. then you can add this to the system's .login to check
the users and lines.
> 3. And lastly modify the tty driver to support "advising." This would
> allow root to watch the characters sent to a terminal and have the
> characters that he types inserted into that port's input characte
> stream.
A hackers' delight, a simple rm -rf will remove this "advising" :-)
--
Jim Webb "Out of phase--get help" ...!ihnp4!hropus!jrw
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