Re: Screen capturing:

[AARON HOWELL <a.howell@student.qut.edu.au>]

On Sat, 30 Nov 1996, Nikhil Nair wrote:
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> I didn't know about setterm until just now, but remember that, unless the
> last octal digit of your umask is 7 (which it wouldn't normally be), using
> this is a potential security hole, as other users could read the contents
> of the console through the contents of that file.  Use that with care!
Err. Yes. that's why ioctl(dump) Which is the kernel function which is
used to get the info off the console is only available to processes
running as root. Naturally, the normal cautions with doing anything as
root apply to  this as well.
Aaron
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