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From: haynes@cats.ucsc.edu (Jim Haynes)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: Major security hole with getty, please help!
Date: 23 Sep 1993 22:57:33 GMT
Organization: University of California; Santa Cruz
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Just to add to what everybody else has already said - lost of Un*x-es have
some software means to sense or ignore things like pin 8 in the RS-232
connector. So if you connect local terminals you don't have to bother
to wire pin 8 high; but if you connect modems you can have it function.
How this is done tends to be specific to particular systems.
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