Re: Security Bug?
Re: Security Bug?
- Subject: Re: Security Bug?
- From: Brian Hill <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2001 22:33:46 -0600
On Friday, November 2, 2001, at 08:13 PM, Erik J. Barzeski wrote:
Hi,
Just a thought regarding the issue of taking screenshots of the login
screen...
As the resulting TIFF images are quite big, could it not be considered a
security risk to allow screenshotting of the login screen? After all,
users
without access to the system could screenshot away, filling up the hard
disk
in no time!
Well, if you had that kind of access to the machine, you could just bash
it with a hammer too...8-)
Brian
Sean McNamara found that he could use Command-Shift-3 to take a
screenshot of
the login window. But after he logged in, the picture was nowhere to
be found.
This is not really too surprising. The OS has no way of knowing which
account
is yours before you log in, so it does not know where to put the
picture.
Thus, it places it on the desktop of the root account. If you log in
as a root
user, you will find the file (named "Picture 1" or "Picture 1.tiff")
waiting
for you. By the way, the location of the root desktop folder is:
/private/var/root/Desktop. Thus, you can also access these files by
starting
up in OS 9 and dragging the files out of this folder.
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http://personalpages.tds.net/~brian_hill
"Why? I came into this game for adventure - go anywhere, travel
light, get in, get out, wherever there's trouble, a man alone.
Now they've got the whole country sectioned off and you can't
move without a form. I'm the last of a breed."
-- Archibald "Harry" Tuttle, Rogue HVAC Repairman
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