[13670] in Athena Bugs
Emacs/pty handling
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Basch)
Mon Jul 17 13:09:40 1995
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 1995 13:09:04 -0400
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
Cc: rs6kswat@MIT.EDU
From: "Richard Basch" <basch@MIT.EDU>
I keep meaning to report this and forget.
Anyway, if you start emacs from a remote login, and then the login
session dies for whatever reason (logout with suspended job, network
failure, etc.), the emacs will remain, and someone else can connect to
the machine and have control of your emacs (sort of, since there is a
competing login process on the same pty).
System type: RISC/6000 (I don't think it happens elsewhere, certainly not DEC)
System version: all releases (7.7, 7.6, etc.)
Bug severity: high (security concern)
-Richard
