Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 16:47:41 +0200 From: Dean Strik <dean@stack.nl> To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org> Cc: Jesper Wallin <jesper@www.hackunite.net> Subject: Re: Information disclosure? Message-ID: <20050422144740.GB81889@dragon.stack.nl> In-Reply-To: <20050422115200.GA58483@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv> References: <42686A29.7090900@hackunite.net> <810a540e05042120493eb79da0@mail.gmail.com> <42687BDD.6000008@hackunite.net> <20050422115200.GA58483@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv>
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Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > Putting "deliberate paranoia" aside for a while, you can always _force_ > the syscons buffer to be cleared by toggling between a couple of > different video modes: > > # vidcontrol 80x30 ; vidcontrol 80x25 ; clear ; logout vidcontrol -C is simpler and actually works :-) Changing the videomodes doesn't generally clear the buffer. -- Dean C. Strik Eindhoven University of Technology dean@stack.nl | dean@ipnet6.org | http://www.ipnet6.org/ "This isn't right. This isn't even wrong." -- Wolfgang Pauli
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