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- From: barr@pop.psu.edu (David Barr)
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- Subject: Re: Where can I find a "fingerd" that fingers the person back?
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- Date: 17 Aug 92 20:02:33 GMT
- References: <1992Aug14.210137.24157@csus.edu> <1992Aug15.022526.14014@Princeton.EDU> <1992Aug17.171935.23127@terminator.cc.umich.edu>
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- In article <1992Aug17.171935.23127@terminator.cc.umich.edu> william@stat.lsa.umich.edu (William Pietri) writes:
- >In article <1992Aug15.022526.14014@Princeton.EDU>, spencer@stroke.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)
-
- Instead I would suggest that all programs who insist on doing reverse
- fingering be immediately purged from all systems, and their authors
- strung up by their genitals.
-
- >There's a version of GNU Finger that's been cleaned up by the folks at
- >ICSI. (It looks like that it is available at icsi.berkeley.edu in
- >pub/stolcke/icsi-finger-1.0.11.tar.Z.) If you tell it to use m4
- >instead of cpp as the macro processor for plan files, then this plan
- >should do what you want:
- >
- >=== begin m4 file ===
- >[..]
-
- Ack, why do people insist on using such hacks?
-
- Simply install the tcp_wrapper (which you should have installed anyway)
- with an RFC 931 daemon (optional)
-
- Then with syslog, and you get entries like this: (or in a flat file if you
- don't want/have syslog)
- Aug 17 15:06:20 darwin in.fingerd[24164]: connect from steven@dejong.pop.psu.edu
-
- It's simple, it's fast, it's efficient, and what's more you can use it
- around rlogind/rexecd/rshd/telnetd/uucpd/sendmail and you gain real security,
- too. Of course, the remote site must have an rfc 931 daemon running in order
- for the username to appear, but that's not too much to expect. (subtle
- plug for all those admins out there)
-
- tcp wrappers: ftp.uu.net:/pub/security/tcp_wrappers.tar.Z
- rfc 931 daemon: ftp.uu.net:/networking/ident/servers/pident-1.8.1.tar.Z
- (There are newer beta versions out as well)
-
- --Dave
- --
- System Administrator, Population Research Institute barr@pop.psu.edu
- One is the loneliest number.
- Two is as lonely as one, just shifted to the left.
-