Subject: Re: *** FingerD ***
To: Jared V Boone <jboone@patriot.wtfd.orst.edu>
From: Robert Shady <rls@zeus.id.net>
List: current-users
Date: 03/01/1994 07:07:44
>>>> The next thing I would like to do is to figure out exactly who on the
>>>> remote host has executed the "finger @" command. Would this be possible?
> If I'm not mistaken, this whole issue is moot anyway, since the finger
> protocol (RFC1288) has no provisions for identifying the originator of the
> finger connection. The only available info would be through sockets, and
> all it could tell you is the connecting machine...
Well, the most obvious would be to use identd somehow to track the most
appropriate guess at a user. I just thought that there might be underlying
ways in the tcp/ip code somewhere.
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