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- Date: 20 NOV 92 21:04:52 GMT
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- Subject: Re: Finger
- X-RFC822-From: simon@internode.com.au (Simon Hackett)
- From: simon@internode.com.au
- Organization: The INFO-MULTINET Community
- Message-ID: <36A00FB320NOV92210452@TGV.COM>
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- > Sure. And the filesystem isn't entirely bulletproof either. You can, after
- > all:
- > $ SET DEFAULT SYS$LOGIN:
- > $ SET PROTECTION=O=RWED [...]*.*.*
- > $ DELETE [...]*.*.*
- > and delete all your files except for some directories. Please note that
- > putting special characters in your process name IS SOMETHING THAT YOU DO TO
- > YOURSELF. You can't screw up someone else's terminal that way; only your own.
- >
-
- But you can screw others up if you work at it and they look at some
- facets of your process information or file information.
-
- It took many years for VMS to get to the point where commands that
- displayed other peoples' process status information of any sort were
- "safe" in terms of control characters when other users looked at you.
-
- There are still a few places where you can set up control characters
- in strings and have them affect other people when they look at facets
- of you. Also, there remains some tricks with Phone that are fun on
- rainy days in this regard...
-
- Back to useful stuff...
-
- Simon
-