Forgive the entire quote here--but honestly, my system is my own personal
system--BIG BROTHER was an authoritarian government. I consider myself
more of a private--if liberal--landowner. :)

The naughty things are annoying because my internet connection complains
about them to me. Which is a bad thing. (TM) I just want control over my
system, ya know? An exercise in systems security.

tooleym@douglas.bc.ca

> 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.