On Thu, 13 Oct 1994, Tony Jago wrote: > example: finger @brolga.cc.uq.oz.au@archie.au > I am not sure if this a "bug" or not but alot of system allow this sort > of thing. HP-UX doesn't. SunOS does. I don't think this is a bug. Neither it is a feature..it is a common hack many people knows but doesnt seem to have a serious security loophole. But it is a simple patch to finger.c (2 more lines of code to check for @ in the input stream) to disallow finger forwarding if you dont like it. James Seng Ching Hong ~{W/Uq:j~} Technet Student Consultant, Technet Unit Internet: jseng@solomon.technet.sg