Subject: Re: Not your typical help q--Monitoring tty's?
To: None <tooleym@douglas.bc.ca>
From: Sean Witham <Sean.Witham@asa.co.uk>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 04/16/1998 13:00:41
BIG BROTHER or what ! These "naughty things" must be very annoying to
warrant you sepending your time watcher things rather then just check
soem loggs and disabling things.

--Sean

On Wed, 15 Apr 1998 tooleym@douglas.bc.ca wrote:

> 
> I have a NetBSD1.3 machine and I would sorely like to install something
> like ttywatcher through which I might start up an xterm window and watch
> the input and output (take over if I wanted) of a particular user's tty.
> 
> There are a couple of ways I thought about doing this, one being to simply
> dump all the traffic through a device and employ a tcp session sniffer to
> pick out a specific line of communication.
> 
> Personally, I'd prefer to see it a little more real-time so I have just a
> few more seconds to react to the naughty things that my users continually
> like to do.
> 
> In any case, any help would certainly be appreciated.
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> Marc Tooley
> tooleym@douglas.bc.ca
> 
>