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- Path: sparky!uunet!mitech!gjc
- From: gjc@mitech.com (George J. Carrette)
- Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.tcp-ip.multinet
- Subject: Re: Finger
- Message-ID: <3664@mitech.com>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 10:18:10 GMT
- References: <1992Nov16.133456.9310@abo.fi> <Keith.W.Johnson.22.721965538@tek.com> <1992Nov17.071012.8426@abo.fi> <17NOV199211474748@carat.arizona.edu>
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- In article <17NOV199211474748@carat.arizona.edu>, jms@carat.arizona.edu (A virtually vegetal non-entity) writes:
- > #ifdef FUCKTHEM
- > #endif
-
- Gosh, you guys are too nice. In the old days when Unix systems were
- just coming on-line in the new TCP-IP arpanet, we used to deal with
- random fingers by sending special H-19 and VT-100 escape codes down
- the pipe that would cause terminals to be reset, or worse. I'm not sure
- if the usual finger programs in the BSD were ever adjusted to prevent
- that sort of thing from happening.
-
- Of course, even standard VMS is not entirely immune to that sort of attack.
- e.g.
-
- $ BELL[0,8] = 7
- $ SET PROCESS/NAME="''BELL'FOO''BELL'"
-
- Now your usual commands such as SHOW PROC and SHOW SYS don't do funny
- things with this situation, but CONTROL-T does ring your bell.
-
- -gjc
-