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Don't you need root to read keystrokes not being sent to you?
by superuser2 13y ago
Don't you need root to read keystrokes not being sent to you?
- laluser 13y agoI think what he is trying to say is that it could just emulate the terminal and read whatever is coming to it after it's executed. "Listening" for when the user types in sudo...
- claudius 13y agoThe easier way would likely be to add a "sudo" script somewhere in $PATH, ideally before /usr/bin – incidentally, this gets much easier on a development machine where people have a ruby path, a perl path, a python path and their own $HOME/bin.
- ori_b 13y agoNot under X11. See `xev -id $WINDOW_ID` for a demonstration. There's the XACE (X11 Access Control Extension) that tries to make it harder to snoop, but I don't believe that it's enabled by default in most distributions.
- jebblue 13y agoI tried this, I started gedit then xwininfo to get the window id then xev -id and then started typing in gedit. I saw event information but didn't see what characters were being typed so what's the point you're trying to make?
- FreeFull 13y agoI do see what characters are getting typed when I do the same thing. For example: KeyPress event, serial 28, synthetic NO, window 0x2000003, root 0x2b7, subw 0x0, time 322414662, (225,283), root:(1057,269), state 0x0, keycode 26 (keysym 0x65, e), same_screen YES, XLookupString gives 1 bytes: (65) "e" XmbLookupString gives 1 bytes: (65) "e" XFilterEvent returns: False