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- From: matthews@oberon.umd.edu (Mike Matthews)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
- Subject: Re: Where can I find a "fingerd" that fingers the person back?
- Message-ID: <14993@umd5.umd.edu>
- Date: 15 Aug 92 11:20:38 GMT
- References: <1992Aug14.210137.24157@csus.edu> <1992Aug15.022526.14014@Princeton.EDU>
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- In article <1992Aug15.022526.14014@Princeton.EDU> spencer@phoenix.princeton.edu (S. Spencer Sun) writes:
- >In article <1992Aug14.210137.24157@csus.edu>, tching@target.water.ca.gov (Tracy Ching <SysAdmin>) writes:
- >> I want to know who is "finger"ing me (no jokes please...)
- >>and I want it to keep a log.
- >
- >AAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!
- >
- >From the frequency with which similar questions arise, I would guess
- >that no such fingerd has been written, but if you write one, I suggest
- >you definitely post it because there seem to be a lot of people who
- >would like to have it (I'm not one of them though)
-
- Actually, there is one, provisionally. There is a fingerd (for the NeXTs,
- should be easily portable to other platforms) that uses RFC931 for user
- authentication. The other end has to be running authd (or something similar)
- for it to work.
-
- Sources available from nova.cc.purdue.edu:pub/next/2.0-release/source/
- new-fingerd-1.04.tar.Z, nidentd2.0.tar.Z} or somesuch.
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- Mike Matthews, matthews@oberon.umd.edu (NeXTmail accepted)
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- Fiery energy lanced out, but the beams struck an intangible wall between
- the Gubru and the rapidly turning Earth ship.
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- "Water!" it shrieked as it read the spectral report. "A barrier of water
- vapor! A civilized race could not have found such a trick in the Library!
- A civilized race could not have stooped so low! A civilized race would not
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- It screamed as the Gubru ship hit a cloud of drifting snowflakes.
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