Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site bnl.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!sbcs!bnl!piggott From: piggott@bnl.UUCP (Christopher Piggott) Newsgroups: net.bugs,net.bugs.4bsd Subject: stty bug + effects Message-ID: <571@bnl.UUCP> Date: Sun, 12-Aug-84 18:59:18 EDT Article-I.D.: bnl.571 Posted: Sun Aug 12 18:59:18 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 14-Aug-84 08:11:22 EDT Lines: 8 Forgive me if this is already understood, but being able to read the terminal settings of another's terminal also means that you can set some of those definitions for them - including the famous 'stty 0' - and force another's terminal to do funny things to them.... Does anybody know of any way to protect themselves against this other than the 'mesg n' which disallows ANY writing to your device? (piggott@bnl for replies + comments)