Awe13.129 net.news.b utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!duke!chico!harpo!mhtsa!ihnss!houxi!houxg!lime!we13!rjk Mon Jan 25 09:31:43 1982 Demons reading news We have some demons, trolls, or gremlins reading news here. Apparently, readnews catches SIGHUP (y/n?) in a similar fashion as it catches SIGINT. When some poor soul with CALL WAITING on his home data line gets blipped off by an inconsiderate incoming call, readnews remains reading. The next unsuspecting victim that logs in on that port finds himself reading news, and more horribly, has `become' the previous user (harware setuid?)!!! One night there were four of these gremlins romping around, and nary a soul, save myself, was logged in! HEEEeeellllppp!!!!! Randy King we13!rjk ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.