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Obtaining Shell Access via AIM?

Posted by Cliff on from the terminals-pah!-that-would-be-too-easy dept.

Quicksilver31337 asks: "I have recently been faced with a challenge of getting shell access via a AIM(for mobile access purposes), where Perl would be used to recieve messages (prolly from specified users only) over AIM, and pass them as shell commands, and finally, returning output to the user over AIM again. Its seems to be possible to me (maybe using Net::AIM) and I was wondering if anyone has tried something similar with success. Thanks."

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  1. Hi, I can't do my job, so... by Harik · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    I'd like someone on slashdot to do it for me.

    For instance, I don't know anything about things like forkpty(3) and how it would work for me.

    Lucky for me, someone on slashdot understands things like login_tty(3) or execve(2) and is going to explain them to me.