Re: finger-bombing
Mark C. Henderson (mch@sqwest.bc.ca)
Fri, 14 Oct 1994 19:51:57 -0700
> >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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