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Re: Login masking?
Article: 7381 of alt.hackers From: ba044@cq-pan.cqu.edu.au (Silvio Cesare) Newsgroups: alt.hackers Subject: Re: Login masking? Date: 14 Feb 1995 07:43:35 GMT Organization: Central Queensland Public Access Network (CQ-PAN) Lines: 27 Approved: what the fuck.. Message-ID: 3hpmv7$g4@janus.cqu.edu.au NNTP-Posting-Host: bertha.cqu.edu.au X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Status: RO
Jeff Garzik (jgarzik@nyx10.cs.du.edu) wrote: >Here's an easy question: Under a normal Unix shell (like ksh or bash), >how does one mask their command line input, so that it cannot be seen by >"w" and similar commands? try replacing argv[0], (generally pathname) when using exec to execute, with something of your own :) > [ snip ] ObJoystickHack: umm.. a few years back when i ussing commodore computers i built a joystick made from video arcade machine parts :) ObCarStereoInProgressHack: trying to fit a stereo into an '84 subaru brumby in which the center console is too small.. if anyones fitted a stereo to a brumby before i'd be _very_ interested in talking to you. -- Silvio
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