Re: off-topic: is a login, login?
On Mon, Apr 12, 1999 at 11:53:43PM +0100, Edward Betts wrote:
> If I seat down at a machine that says:
>
> > Debian GNU/Linux potato portaloo tty1
> >
> > portaloo login:
>
> How can I be sure it is the `real' login, and not just a program somebody has
> run that looks like login and is supposed to capture user-ids and passwords?
>
> First I would try ctrl+c and ctrl+z but I am sure that programs can override
> both of these, so what can I do, how can I be sure?
>
> As a sysadmin Would the solution be to run idled and chuck off idle users,
> or is there another way?
control alt keycode 1 = SAK
gives you a "kill everything running on this tty" -button
at control-alt-esc. See loadkeys(1).
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