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Yeh Ubuntu is quite good in that respect. I've never seen the exact message you get, but I know that Ubuntu randomizes the location of the stack making it very hard for buffer overflows to be...

Thanks for the reply.

So is it possible to envoke these macros from within a C application? Something along the lines of 'echo "unalias temp" | /bin/bash'?

I usually don't use root but I was...

Sorry for the lack of details. What it boils down to is that the system already has an alias defined and I need to remove it. The relevant part of my application (called "plz"):


system("unalias...

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Im trying to create an alias on a Linux system, which is very simple done through the command line by "alias my_command=another_command" for example, and then to remove the alias you use...

Thanks alot for the reply, much appreciated. Its a shame that something like this is so hard to do, I have seen many queries on the internet relating to this very same problem... would be nice if...

With the new code (i.e. the code I posted above), I see everything I typed. What this means is that backspaces are effectively ignored, so if i type "hi <backspace>a" (intending to type ha), it will...

Thanks for the reply, but I finally found something that works. It is slightly above my head but i am trying to fully understand what it does. BTW backspaces dont work here, any ideas on that?


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I was looking at the man pages of getch and i read the following:


What is this no-delay mode and does it have to do with that?

nah same result :(
btw. im running ubuntu if that matters

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its strange... in theory it should work, but it is as if some is pressing a key on the keyboard and as soon as the program is run...

No what it is supposed to do is the following:
every time a key is pressed, it is added to the character buffer and a * is printed. Once the user pressed enter it quits
What it currently does is,...

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Thanks for the reply, but its not quite working yet.

I now have the following code:


#include <stdlib.h>
#include <curses.h>
#include <stdio.h>

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I am writing a small program ( still quite new to this), and i need to hide the input that the user enters (as su does for example, you cant see what you are typing). How can i do this?

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Im learning a thing or two about buffer overflows, and a tutorial I'm reading has the following piece of code:


#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#define NOP...

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I got Borland C++ Builder 6, and its exactly what I've been looking for. I want to learn C++ well, Iv been programming in PHP for years, and have basic C knowledge but always got stuck on...

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I am relatively new to C++, but know the basics. I have previously worked with Delphi, and I am sure there must be a similar application for C++ (so visually create the application, drag and...