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- From: shlam@eng.ie.cuhk.hk (Alan S H Lam)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
- Subject: Re: Where can I find a "fingerd" that fingers the person back?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug17.104358.28812@cucs5.cs.cuhk.hk>
- Date: 17 Aug 92 10:43:58 GMT
- References: <1992Aug14.210137.24157@csus.edu> <1992Aug15.022526.14014@Princeton.EDU> <Bt0HDD.Lzx@cs.psu.edu>
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- Organization: Faculty of Engineering, The Chinese U. of Hong Kong
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- ward@math.psu.edu (Brian Ward) writes:
-
- >In article <1992Aug15.022526.14014@Princeton.EDU> spencer@phoenix.princeton.edu (S. Spencer Sun) writes:
- >|> I want to know who is "finger"ing me (no jokes please...)
- >|>and I want it to keep a log.
- >|
- >|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)
-
- >As one of the authors of a fingerd, I would like to express how ludicrously
- >stupid I think the idea of a fingerd that does this is. With all of the
- >various fingerds out there, the chances for loopback are pretty, uh, nasty.
-
- >I suggest reading rfc931. Then, install tcp wrapper and ident, and you can
- >get stuff like this:
-
- >Aug 15 02:01:02 euler.math.psu.edu in.fingerd[7640]: connect from ward@lagrange.math.psu.edu
- >Aug 15 02:01:04 euler.math.psu.edu in.fingerd[7673]: connect from ward@psuvax1.cs.psu.edu
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- But I learn that only the remote client host running the RFC 931-compliant daemon can
- show the remote user name; otherwise, it only show the remote client hostname.
-
- Am I right? If not, please correct me.
-
- Thanks.
-
-
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