🚀 go-pugleaf

ggm@brolga.cc.uq.oz.au (George Michaelson) writes:
>One idea which I have implemented on a box here, but which might impact
>on horton if deployed widely, is to replace fingerd by a paranoid shell
>script [ which simply says "Finger not supported; contact foo@bar for 
> info about this machine" ]
>This  provides minimal onward assistance so in the case of dire emergency
>somebody can proceed. I put it onto the box which is doing our mailhub and
>newshub work, which I particularly didn't want to be blasted by random
>finger requests.

This won't impact Horton at all if it's only deployed on mailservers
which don't allow user logins; Horton only needs finger where users
might be logged in.
- Dan K.