[plug] PrintScreen of death

Craig Ringer craig at postnewspapers.com.au
Mon Jun 10 17:08:56 WST 2002


> They're how xterm, Eterm and rxvt all came installed at least. My
> guess is so it can write to /var/log/wtmp or /var/run/utmp to keep
> track of logins. I don't see that as such a big security hole. A
> malicious Eterm might fill up /var, but chances of that on my
> machine aren't great.

whoops... mine too :-/ never did notice before, makes sense for login 
tracking as suggested.

Sorry.

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