Jesper Wallin wrote: > For some reason, I thought little about the "clear" command today.. > Let's say a privileged user (root) logs on, edit a sensitive file (e.g, > a file containing a password, running vipw, etc) .. then runs clear and > logout. Then anyone can press the scroll-lock command, scroll back up > and read the sensitive information.. Isn't "clear" ment to clear the > backbuffer instead of printing a full screen of returns? If it does, I'm > not sure how that would effect a user running "clear" on a pty (telnet, > sshd, screen, etc) ..
vidcontrol -C ; clear -- Dean C. Strik Eindhoven University of Technology [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.ipnet6.org/ "This isn't right. This isn't even wrong." -- Wolfgang Pauli _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-security To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
