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From: Timo Boettcher <spida@×××.net>
To: Jarry <gentoo-user@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] root logout: not clearing the screen...
Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2005 17:49:19
Message-Id: 1197374422.20050723194428@gmx.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] root logout: not clearing the screen... by Jarry
1 Hi Jarry,
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4 * Jarry <jarry@×××.net>, Saturday, July 23, 2005, 6:26:32 PM:
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6 > Hi "gentoorians"! :-)
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8 > I have noticed some strange (and imho rather not secure) thing:
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10 > A common, "not root" user logs in on vc1 (2,3,4....), then he runs some
11 > process which writes output to screen (e.g. "ls -al"), then he logs out.
12 > After logging out the screen is cleared, and a new log-in prompt is
13 > on the top of a screen. Except for log-in prompt and welcome message,
14 > screen is empty...
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16 hm, I did that a while back for all users.
17 I have in /etc/inittab
18 c1:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty/ -I '\033[2J\033[f' 38400 tty1 linux
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22 Timo
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Re: [gentoo-user] root logout: not clearing the screen... Norberto Bensa <nbensa@×××.net>