Re: Hijacked Xterm

From: Peter Van Epp (vanepp_at_sfu.ca)
Date: 06/14/05

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    Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 14:53:01 +0000 (UTC)

    adam.sutton@baesystems.com writes:

    >Hi I am trying to help a friend figure out what is going on with his
    >xterm
    >(actually I think he might be a KDE user, so probably konsole).

    >Every so often he seems to find random words (not random characters)
    >typed
    >into his console.

    >We run on a private network with no external network access, because
    >this
    >is a small works network for relatively computer literate users most
    >people know the root passwords to machines.

    >I think this has to be a practical joke, but I am after any advice as
    >to
    >how someone might be achieving this.

            Go looking for a copy of xkey.c (it is very old). If your X persmissions
    aren't set correctly and secured (for some poor value of secured :-)) X is
    easy to hijack. There are undoubtably newer slicker versions of xkey.c floating
    around by now ...

    Peter Van Epp / Operations and Technical Support
    Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C. Canada

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