On Wed, Jul 14, 1999 at 11:12:23AM +0200, Kunz, Peter wrote:
> The issue is not getting admin rights. The issue is the assumption on my
> part that for a program to read keystrokes, you need some sort of system
> privileges. guess I'm wrong on that part... As someone else pointed out,
> though, NT starts programs in the user directory with higher privileges.
> Seems that's at least one viable avenue for egtting to the system calls. Now
> you're saying that it's not even necessary to have access to system calls,
> any user can read keyboard input. So now I start to wonder if this is some
> major design flaw or if this is possibles with other OSes.
On most OSes a programm of the user is allowed to read the input of that
user. This is used in situations where you want hot-keys or stuff. It can be
done on X Windows, too (in that case you can read it as every user as long
as you have access to the display (xhost +)). In Unix Console it might be a
bit more complicated, but stuff like screen or script can fake a console.
Yes, might be a desgn problem, but not only in NT.
Greetings
Bernd
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