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Article #143Re: unhappy about overloading finger
From: Dave Hayes
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 21:07
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 21:07
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spaf@cs.purdue.EDU (Gene Spafford) writes: >Finger can be replaced with something else, say, a simple Perl script. >You might have something that prints out an appropriate message and >then exits. This means you can keep from printing user .plan files, >thus cutting down on their attempts to use it as a "billboard". What's wrong with this? Why is this bad? -- Dave Hayes - Network & Communications Engineering - JPL / NASA - Pasadena CA dave@elxr.jpl.nasa.gov dave@jato.jpl.nasa.gov ...usc!elroy!dxh Better the demon that makes you improve than the angel who threatens.
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Newsgroups: comp.security.misc Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!haven.umd.edu!darwin.sura.net!mips!sdd.hp.com!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!jato!dave From: dave@jato.jpl.nasa.gov (Dave Hayes) Subject: Re: unhappy about overloading finger Message-ID: <1992Jul21.210740.22162@jato.jpl.nasa.gov> Reply-To: dave@jato.jpl.nasa.gov Organization: Jet Propulsion Lab - Pasadena, CA References: <ggm.711690458@brolga> <CKD.92Jul21010148@loiosh.eff.org> <19107@ector.cs.purdue.edu> Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 21:07:40 GMT Lines: 13