Re: security problem: console text gets sent to printer

[Lubos Vrbka <lists@vrbka.net>]

> > On two different occasions over the past month, text from the console
> > was sent to the printer.  It prints 3-4 copies of 2-3 pages from the
> > console.  The text is printed out just like it's shown in the console,
> > with both the commands and their output.
> >
> > I use urxvt as my X console, and I run several bash sessions inside of
> > screen.  Only the text from one of the sessions printed.  The first
> > time text was printed from the root account, the second time it was
> > from my user account.  The last command I typed before text started
> > printing was xlock.
> >
> > I'm running the latest Etch with 2.6.16-2-686-smp.  This is a pretty
> > big security problem, since my computer prints to a shared printer.
> > Any idea what's causing it?
>
> If this was CP/M, I'd say that someone has pressed ^P.
i reported the same thing on the list some time ago. i guess urxvt might 
be the culprit, i use it as well and see similar behavior. (i have etch, 
2.6.17 kernel, amd64)

i don't know what triggers the printout... sometimes i manage to press 
some weird key combination and urxvt than show (for a second or so) 
yellow rectangle with some text in (bottom left) corner - but i'm not 
sure if this is the reason.

see my previous post on this topic, e.g., here:
http://people.debian.org/~terpstra/message/20060906.142321.ca40ffdf.en.html

regards,

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