Re: finger-bombing

Pete Shipley (shipley@merde.dis.org)
Fri, 14 Oct 1994 09:49:07 -0700

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>I was just wondering with all this finger hassle that's been going on, 
>isn't there a way that an admin can figure out who is the actual user who 
>actually fingered the attacked host? Isn't there some sort of identifying 
>daemon that would get the name of the guy that fingered the attacked host?
>I thought I saw an RFC on something like this, or am I wrong? 
>Tnx for any replies to this one...

yea it is called identd, I have modified my rlogin, telnet, ftpd & popper
servers to do identd queries on all connections.  

	-Pete

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