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- From: jbotz@mtholyoke.edu (Jurgen Botz)
- Subject: Re: Where can I find a "fingerd" that fingers the person back?
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- Organization: Mount Holyoke College
- References: <1992Aug17.210125.9625@csus.edu>
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- Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 17:05:34 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug17.210125.9625@csus.edu> tching@target.water.ca.gov (Tracy Ching <SysAdmin>) writes:
- > O.K. I guess I didn't do my research and should have asked a more
- >pointed question. Sorry about that. I notice that there seems that
- >one doesn't exist. (and running a daemon with RFC 931 is out of the
- >question because it assumes that the other side has it too)
-
- I don't see why that makes it be "out of the question". The RFC931 tcp
- wrapper stuff gives you all sorts of useful information, regardless of
- whether the "other side" is running authd or not. Of course, if the
- other side _is_ running authd, you get even more useful information.
-
- Either way it's a good idea to install this stuff. And if you really
- want to insist on knowing who is fingering you, then modify your fingerd
- to display the following message upon connection from a site which is
- not running authd...
-
- *** fingerd was unable to authenticate this connection in compliance
- *** with RFC931. Ask your system administrator to install the RFC931
- *** authd package (available from ftp.uu.net).
-
- Hmmm... I like this idea so much, I think I'm going to do it myself next
- time I have a free moment.
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