[Simh] EXT :Re: Releasing terspy.mar - vax/vms terminal spy program

[Kevin Handy]

2nd try.
This is what I have. you need to set up a DCL command along the lines of

$ GCOBS :== "$GCOBS.EXE"

then start it something like

GCOBS tta9:

There is one keystroke tp exit the program, and another to swap
Been a while since I last used it. but(?) ^Z to exit, ^\ to switch



On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 12:44 AM Dan Gahlinger <dgahling at hotmail.com> wrote:

> can you share it? I'd love to take a look at it
>
> Dan.
>
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> *From:* Simh <simh-bounces at trailing-edge.com> on behalf of Kevin Handy <
> khandy21yo at gmail.com>
> *Sent:* March 30, 2020 2:17 AM
> *To:* Hittner, David T [US] (MS) <david.hittner at ngc.com>
> *Cc:* simh at trailing-edge.com <simh at trailing-edge.com>
> *Subject:* Re: [Simh] EXT :Re: Releasing terspy.mar - vax/vms terminal
> spy program
>
> I found a program on an old gcc distribution called gcobs.mar. Dom't know
> why they had it on there. but...
>
> It allows you to spy on another terminal, and if you type a ^\ (iirc) you
> can interact with that terminal. The only authorship message I can see is
> ;Last Modified:   6-SEP-1988 14:19:55.00, By: RLB
> I know nothing of its licensing, I just have this one file. It worked
> great. Not sure what privs are required either.
>
> On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 9:04 AM Hittner, David T [US] (MS) <
> david.hittner at ngc.com> wrote:
>
> Oh no… management frequently asked VMS admins to ‘spy’ on general users
> for a few reasons back in the day, before the politically-correct era.
>
> -          Make sure users were not defrauding the company [stealing
> inventory with illegal transactions, etc.]  (without user consent)
>
> -          Watch user sessions when managers reported various discipline
> problems (without user consent)
>
> -          Debugging full-screen application behavior from a remote
> location by having the user walk us through what they did (with user
> consent)
>
>
>
> SET HOST/LOG sessions are difficult to use to see where full-screen
> applications went wrong, since you have to manually interpret all of the
> logged VT escape sequences. L
>
>
>
> For a while, there was a company selling a SPY utility for VMS, as well as
> freebie versions floating around. The commercial version allowed the
> watcher to enter data in the watched session by using a special command
> sequence to enable remote data entry. I don’t recall any of the freebie
> versions ever allowing data entry from the watcher, for fairly obvious
> security reasons.
>
>
>
> There was also another highly privileged program on the DECUS tapes,
> GLOGIN, which allowed a privileged user to login as another user, so that
> you could see what application behavior occurred within the context of a
> specific user. I found a weird bug in one of our application programs that
> only occurred when the username was *exactly* 7 characters long using
> GLOGIN to login as the user who had reported the bug that we couldn’t
> duplicate ourselves. J
>
>
>
> David
>
>
>
> *From:* Simh <simh-bounces at trailing-edge.com> *On Behalf Of *Robert
> Armstrong
> *Sent:* Wednesday, March 25, 2020 10:23 AM
> *To:* simh at trailing-edge.com
> *Subject:* EXT :Re: [Simh] Releasing terspy.mar - vax/vms terminal spy
> program
>
>
>
> >$ SET HOST/LOG will log your own session. This program logs someone
> else's session.
>
>
>
>   That’s true – I’m assuming the person being spied upon wants to be spied
> on.
>
>
>
> Bob
>
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