Re: finger

["Soren S. Jorvang" <soren%wheel.dk@localhost>]

On Sun, Aug 11, 2002 at 05:11:57PM +0200, Soren S. Jorvang wrote:
> >     you seem to assume that both ends agree about their idea about
> >     multibyte encoding.  that's not possible.  for instance, if fingerd
> 
> No, the idea is simply and no more than to avoid security
> compromises through receiving terminal control characters.
and of course, allowing anything else through in an character
set unspecified way.

> Maybe !iscntrl() or something like that would be better for this
> purpose, however.


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Soren