John Line writes: | Er... what if the remote site's fingerd returns output which uses UCB mail's | ~-escapes to run commands, or amend the headers and mail "interesting" files | somewhere? [I don't think I'll stick my neck out in this forum and risk | any suggestions about better ways to send the mail! :-)] How about "safe_finger" ? (from the TCP wrapper distribution... ;-) * safe_finger - finger client wrapper that protects against nasty stuff * from finger servers. Use this program for automatic reverse finger * probes, not the raw finger command. * * Build with: cc -o safe_finger safe_finger.c * * The problem: some programs may react to stuff in the first column. Other * programs may get upset by thrash anywhere on a line. File systems may * fill up as the finger server keeps sending data. Text editors may bomb * out on extremely long lines. The finger server may take forever because * it is somehow wedged. The code below takes care of all this badness. * * Author: Wietse Venema, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands. Cheerio, Martin