Re: FINGER command ?!

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From: Bill Fenner
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 02:16

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In article <omBuXB1w165w@acelab.re.open.de> ace@acelab.re.open.de (Andreas Fatum) writes:
|Although I put "finger_ok : 3" in my static-file, every user,
|even the -1/0 guest account can still finger all other users.

This appears to be a bug.  Waffle doesn't check the value of finger_ok
anywhere, so the only workaround would be to write an extern to provide
the information that you're interested in, which you can then control
access to, and 'disable: finger'.

  Bill

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