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- From: osycs@giac1.oscs.montana.edu (Craig Spannring)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
- Subject: Re: Query: better finger server?
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- Message-ID: <1992Jul28.013256.9682@coe.montana.edu>
- Date: 28 Jul 92 01:32:56 GMT
- References: <1992Jul27.212913.13369@kronos.com>
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- Organization: Geographic Information & Analysis Center Montana State University
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- In article <1992Jul27.212913.13369@kronos.com> richb@kronos.com (Rich Braun) writes:
- >
- [ Stuff about wanting users on other side of gateway to be finger-able deleted ]
- >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.
-
- Could you just give the users an account with a password of * and a shell
- of /bin/false. You could then finger the user, but they wouldn't be able
- to login.
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