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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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