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- From: carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Carl J Lydick)
- Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.tcp-ip.multinet
- Subject: Re: FInger
- Date: 21 Nov 1992 02:13:32 GMT
- Organization: HST Wide Field/Planetary Camera
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- Distribution: world
- Message-ID: <1ek60cINNeqa@gap.caltech.edu>
- References: <01GRDUQKU2KK9ODWJR@ritvax.isc.rit.edu>
- Reply-To: carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU
- NNTP-Posting-Host: sol1.gps.caltech.edu
-
- In article <01GRDUQKU2KK9ODWJR@ritvax.isc.rit.edu>, AWPSYS@ritvax.isc.rit.edu (Andrew Potter, Assoc. Dir, ISC DCO&TS) writes:
- >>
- >>>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.
- >
- >>and delete all your files except for some directories. Please note that
- >>putting special characters in your process name IS SOMETHING THAT YOU DO TO
- >>YOURSELF. You can't screw up someone else's terminal that way; only your own.
- >
- >The DCL command SHOW uses $FAO to filter non printing characters from process
- >names. Finger does not.
-
- Finger doesn't have to, since it doesn't display process names:
-
- $ finger
- Friday, November 20, 1992 5:57PM-PST Up 109 01:28:34
- 4+2 Jobs Load ave 0.11 0.07 0.05
-
- User Personal Name Job Subsys Idle TTY Console Location
- CARL Carl J Lydick 2060546A NEWSRDR .nty1 TCP: tspl1.gps.calte
- 20605E81 *DCL* .nty4 TCP: tspl1.gps.calte
- LYDICK Carl J Lydick 20605B33 NEWSRDR 5.nty3 TCP: tspl1.gps.calte
- SXM Stuart Mcmuldroch 206052C1 *DCL* 1:38.nty2 TCP: tspl2.gps.calte
-
- We *ARE* talking about MULTInet's FINGER, aren't we? If not, what's this
- thread it doing in this newsgroup?
-
- Now, if you meant the user's PERSONAL NAME, that's different. Of course,
- that's not something that's typically settable by a user. At this point, one
- can argue that there's always reason to distrust information coming from
- another system, on the network unless one trusts the manager of that system.
-
- >I personnally believe that any system wide utility that displays individual
- >user specified fields should give the systems manager a mechanism to
- >filter non printing characters.
-
- But MULTInet's finger DOES NOT display "individual user specified fields"
- unless the system manager on a remote node has installed a fingerd that sends
- such stuff to MULTInet. If *THAT*'s what you're complaining about, then you
- should also be demanding that TELNET do the same sort of filtering; after all,
- the announcement message from another system might have a nasty escape sequence
- in it too, right?
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Carl J Lydick | INTERnet: CARL@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU | NSI/HEPnet: SOL1::CARL
-
- Disclaimer: Hey, I understand VAXen and VMS. That's what I get paid for. My
- understanding of astronomy is purely at the amateur level (or below). So
- unless what I'm saying is directly related to VAX/VMS, don't hold me or my
- organization responsible for it. If it IS related to VAX/VMS, you can try to
- hold me responsible for it, but my organization had nothing to do with it.
-