[GLLUG] putty titlebar

[Caleb Cushing]

since it was asked the title bar had something innappropriate(eg vulgar)
displayed in it. I forgret exactly what now.

On 8/22/06, Caleb Cushing <xenoterracide at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> very strange.... it seems to have gone away... but I don't like it. it
> appears that it might be my windows box that's been comprimized (the one i'm
> running putty on)... to soon to tell I think when I get home I need to
> review some logs. I've already changed my password for my login from a
> different terminal.
>
>
> On 8/22/06, Clay Dowling <clay at lazarusid.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Caleb Cushing said:
> > > no... it reads a some sort of a DNS hostname.domainname record. but
> > I'm
> > > not
> > > sure how it determines that. could be localsetting could be forward
> > lookup
> > > reverse lookup. am I missing anything? how would I determine.
> >
> > It's possible for a hacked server to lie to you about this.  Xterm
> > allows
> > the setting of the title bar, and PuTTy supports this feature.  There's
> > an
> > option under the PuTTy Windows settings to control this.
> >
> > >
> > > On 8/22/06, Charles Ulrich < charles at idealso.com> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> Caleb Cushing wrote:
> > >> > when using putty to ssh where does it get the info from  that's in
> > the
> > >> > title bar? seems I've been cracked. I need to be more paranoid. but
> > >> > first I need to figure out how much damage was caused.
> > >>
> > >> At a guess, it's probably reading the escape sequences mentioned
> > here:
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Bash-Prompt-HOWTO/xterm-title-bar-manipulations.html
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