Re: flash

der Mouse (mouse@Collatz.McRCIM.McGill.EDU)
Wed, 24 Aug 1994 09:08:32 -0400

>>> If you are concerned about people sending bad things to your screen
>>> then you should also take a look at syslogd which allows anyone to
>>> send a message to all users logged in [...].
>> Why would you want to do that?  Then you would hose your session as
>> well, right?

You could protect yourself by telling your comm program to emulate a
Hazeltine or something else that doesn't understand the string you're
spewing at everyone.

You could also protect yourself by not having a session on the target
machine at the time.

> Any lamer that forgets to say 'mesg n' to protect himself before
> using syslogd to hose everybody, *deserves* to get hosed himself.

In my experience, syslog messages pay no attention to the mesg setting,
so mesg n wouldn't help at all.

					der Mouse

			    mouse@collatz.mcrcim.mcgill.edu