Re: finger
I've replaced finger altogether for off-site finger requests with a nice
little perl script guaranteed to confuse and amuse. Try fingering
fmouse@fmp.com. Try it several times :)
I'll be glad to share the script with anyone who wants it.
Thus spake Will Lowe on Mon, May 22, 2000 at 01:51:41PM CDT
> > I may have misspoken on this. I believe that there are exploits involving
> > finger and executable code, but I'm not sure of the details since it's been
> > a while. I gave the issue some thought last night after I posted this and
>
> There have also been buffer overflows in _every_ version of finger since
> time began. They keep saying they're fixed, and then somebody finds
> another. Running such things as root is _BAD_. :)
>
> Will
>
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