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- From: dank@blacks.jpl.nasa.gov (Dan Kegel)
- Newsgroups: comp.security.misc
- Subject: Re: unhappy about overloading finger
- Message-ID: <dank.711824285@blacks.jpl.nasa.gov>
- Date: 22 Jul 92 16:58:05 GMT
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- ggm@brolga.cc.uq.oz.au (George Michaelson) writes:
- >One idea which I have implemented on a box here, but which might impact
- >on horton if deployed widely, is to replace fingerd by a paranoid shell
- >script [ which simply says "Finger not supported; contact foo@bar for
- > info about this machine" ]
- >This provides minimal onward assistance so in the case of dire emergency
- >somebody can proceed. I put it onto the box which is doing our mailhub and
- >newshub work, which I particularly didn't want to be blasted by random
- >finger requests.
-
- This won't impact Horton at all if it's only deployed on mailservers
- which don't allow user logins; Horton only needs finger where users
- might be logged in.
- - Dan K.
-