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- From: richb@kronos.com (Rich Braun)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,gnu.misc.discuss,comp.unix.admin
- Subject: Query: better finger server?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul27.212913.13369@kronos.com>
- Date: 27 Jul 1992 21:29:13 GMT
- Sender: news@kronos.com (Netnews Admin)
- Organization: Kronos Inc. / Waltham, MA
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- Nntp-Posting-Host: gadget.kronos.com
- Disclaimer: This posting is a personal opinion and not that of Kronos Inc.
-
- We have just added an email gateway to our site, which effectively
- increases the potential number of Internet email users by a factor of
- twenty or so.
-
- The trouble is, of course, most of these users don't have logins on
- the system advertised as 'kronos.com' on Internet. If someone out in
- the World at Large tries to use finger to learn someone's email
- address here, they're probably out of luck. The standard finger server
- provided by the O/S vendor (in this case, IBM) does not provide info
- unless the user has a login. And it'd be crazy for us to hand out
- accounts to all our employees on our Internet gateway system: the
- system would be wide-open to password crackers.
-
- Ages ago, I used a TOPS-20 program called "watson" for this purpose.
- What's out there nowadays? In order for our users to update their own
- info, they'd have to have some sort of platform-independent interface
- (probably email) into the database.
-
- -rich
-