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Has anyone considered
Authored by: victory on Sep 04, '02 08:02:11PM

the spyware capabilities that this new 10.2 command gives to *any* user account on an OSX box? Just a cautious reminder to all who might have enabled remote (shell) logins on their systems.



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Has anyone considered
Authored by: chmod007 on Sep 04, '02 08:46:31PM

Not so. screencapture will only capture the screen if the user who executes the command is also logged in locally at the computer, or is root. This is because the screencapture requires a connection to the windowserver.



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Authored by: Anonymous on Sep 05, '02 11:25:01AM

Not a security hole -- try it.

If you run screencapture as a different user, it can't connect to the window server and, hence, can't take a screenshot.



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Duh. (Has anyone considered)
Authored by: victory on Sep 08, '02 04:40:36AM

You two are, of course, entirely correct. I should have tested this myself before posting a comment that might worry others.



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