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Article #906Re: how to put a program into .plan file
From: Kartik Subbarao
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 1990 12:53
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 1990 12:53
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In article <30908@athertn.Atherton.COM> paul@Atherton.COM (Paul Sander) writes:
>Another interesting trick: If the person doing the fingering has a terminal
>that can be programmed to echo a string (I understand some Tektronix terminals
>do this), you can have your .plan file program the terminal to issue a
>command to send mail. Some people have actually done this, according to a
>reliable source :-)
Yeah - the "Reliable Source" I believe is UNIX System Security, by Kochan
and Wood. Certain intelligent terminals have "send" escape sequences, which
if typed or somehow echoed to the terminal, can execute any command.
-Kartik
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