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- Newsgroups: alt.security,alt.sources.patches
- From: nyh@wpi.WPI.EDU (Nevo Y Hed)
- Subject: Xterm security patch - for X11R5 and sun3 fix for the X11R4
- Message-ID: <1992Jul14.023303.1397@wpi.WPI.EDU>
- Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
- Date: Tue, 14 Jul 1992 02:33:03 GMT
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- On 7 May 1992 I have posted a tiny patch for xterm. a summary
- follows... However, there were requests [to me by email] for an X11R5
- version and there was also a bug that appeared only on Sun3.
-
- The new versions are avilable via anonymous ftp as follows:
- sxtermR4.tar.Z is on wpi.wpi.edu at /contrib
-
- sxtermR5.tar.Z is both on wpi.wpi.edu /contrib
- and on ghost.sm.dsi.unimi.it /pub/crypt
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- Thanx to gshapiro@wpi.wpi.edu and vince@ghost.sm.dsi.unimi.it
- for their help on the X11R5 version and thanx to
- brossard@siisun.epfl.ch for the sun3 bug fix.
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- Following is a short summary of sxterm:
-
- The sensitive information one could get with a simple spying program
- would be passwords. So xterm and dxterm have a menu option to protect
- the keyboard (using XGrabKeyboard(), only one application can use
- XGrabKeyborad at the same time). However, it is a real pain to
- activate this feature, and most people don't even know it's a problem.
- That's why I came up with this patch to xterm (it only modifies the
- Xterm sources slightly).
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- When the string "Password:" arrives at the screen (currently
- ignoring case) the (already existing) xterm's secure keyboard feature
- is enabled until the next linefeed.
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- This feature can be disabled via menu and/or X resources as
- well as the password promprt, see manpage.
-
- --
- Nevo Y. Hed nyh@wpi.wpi.edu
- ++1-508-754-2491 CS student, Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
- "I like my cigar too, but I take it out of my mouth from time to time" G.Marx
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