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- From: cedman@714-725-3165.nts.uci.edu (Carl Edman)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
- Subject: Re: Where can I find a "fingerd" that fingers the person back?
- Message-ID: <2A96E08B.24012@orion.oac.uci.edu>
- Date: 23 Aug 92 00:49:15 GMT
- References: <1992Aug22.225032.637@csus.edu>
- Reply-To: cedman@golem.ps.uci.edu (Carl Edman)
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- Tracy Ching <SysAdmin> writes
- > One comment - internally finger must work for other employees to see.
- > I do have a question regarding that. Does anyone in net-land remotely
- > agree that the finger is a possible security hole for a well seasoned
- > unix guru? (that which I am obviously not and admit it).
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- Finger a security hole ? How should that work ? Naw, that could never happen.
- Finger is as secure UNIX in general. :-)
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- Carl Edman
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