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- From: fenner@postscript.cs.psu.edu (Bill Fenner)
- Subject: Re: FINGER command ?!
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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 02:16:40 GMT
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- In article <omBuXB1w165w@acelab.re.open.de> ace@acelab.re.open.de (Andreas Fatum) writes:
- |Although I put "finger_ok : 3" in my static-file, every user,
- |even the -1/0 guest account can still finger all other users.
-
- This appears to be a bug. Waffle doesn't check the value of finger_ok
- anywhere, so the only workaround would be to write an extern to provide
- the information that you're interested in, which you can then control
- access to, and 'disable: finger'.
-
- Bill
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