Berkeley CSUA MOTD:Entry 32798
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2004/8/9-10 [Computer/SW/Security] UID:32798 Activity:moderate
8/9     [If you want to selectively delete posts from the thread, you might
        as well delete the whole thread.]
        \_ Don't take it personally, it happens to me all the time. Some
           people use scp to change the motd, so as to preserve their
           privacy, nuking recent changes. Yeah, I think they are kind
           of paranoid assholes too, but they have their reasons and
           they will not change.
           \_ Why would using scp protect privacy?  People can see motd.public
              on your commmand line.
              \_ BoxAtHome% scp luser@csua.berkeley.edu:/etc/motd.public foo
                 BoxAtHome% vi foo
                 BoxAtHome% scp foo luser@csua.berkeley.edu:/etc/motd.public
                 \_ soda% ps -aux | fgrep motd
                    ....        scp  ...  /etc/motd.public
                    One can write a script to check process data regularly,
                    and root can check lastcomm.  So unless you have a program
                    running on soda that mirros motd, you will still be
                    caught.
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