kitty, terminals, consoles, VTs and TTYs -- Re: root "login" xterm to increase security?

2020-03-20 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Sun, Sep 16, 2018 at 11:15:56PM -0400, grarpamp wrote: > Any search will bring basic stuff like > > https://insecure.org/sploits/xsecurekeyboard_fequent_query.html > https://www.techrepublic.com/blog/linux-and-open-source/three-features-you-may-not-know-xterm-has/ > http://tutorials.section6.ne

Re: root "login" xterm to increase security?

2018-09-20 Thread Steve Kinney
0On 09/16/2018 11:15 PM, grarpamp wrote: > Any search will bring basic stuff like > > https://insecure.org/sploits/xsecurekeyboard_fequent_query.html > https://www.techrepublic.com/blog/linux-and-open-source/three-features-you-may-not-know-xterm-has/ > http://tutorials.section6.net/home/basics-o

Re: root "login" xterm to increase security?

2018-09-19 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Wed, Sep 19, 2018 at 07:07:28AM -0400, John Newman wrote: > On Sun, Sep 16, 2018 at 11:15:56PM -0400, grarpamp wrote: > > Any search will bring basic stuff like > > > > https://insecure.org/sploits/xsecurekeyboard_fequent_query.html > > https://www.techrepublic.com/blog/linux-and-open-source/th

Re: root "login" xterm to increase security?

2018-09-19 Thread John Newman
On Sun, Sep 16, 2018 at 11:15:56PM -0400, grarpamp wrote: > Any search will bring basic stuff like > > https://insecure.org/sploits/xsecurekeyboard_fequent_query.html > https://www.techrepublic.com/blog/linux-and-open-source/three-features-you-may-not-know-xterm-has/ > http://tutorials.section6.ne

Re: root "login" xterm to increase security?

2018-09-16 Thread grarpamp
Any search will bring basic stuff like https://insecure.org/sploits/xsecurekeyboard_fequent_query.html https://www.techrepublic.com/blog/linux-and-open-source/three-features-you-may-not-know-xterm-has/ http://tutorials.section6.net/home/basics-of-securing-x11 https://www.reddit.com/r/openbsd/comme

Re: root "login" xterm to increase security?

2018-09-13 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 04:48:58PM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > So someone cracking into one's local user account via browser sploit, > one of the first acts would likely be to plant a password capture > script, e.g. wrapping sudo or something otherwise requiring password > entry. > > Once a pa

root "login" xterm to increase security?

2018-09-12 Thread Zenaan Harkness
So someone cracking into one's local user account via browser sploit, one of the first acts would likely be to plant a password capture script, e.g. wrapping sudo or something otherwise requiring password entry. Once a password is obtained, via brute force or trojan, sudo gives the entire system a