This article was posted to the Usenet group alt.hackers in
1995; any technical information is probably outdated.
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Re: What is the problem with Finger?
Article: 7545 of alt.hackers From: killourh@nunki.usc.edu (Patrick Killourhy) Newsgroups: alt.hackers Subject: Re: What is the problem with Finger? Date: 26 Mar 1995 16:51:41 -0800 Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA Lines: 21 Sender: killourh@nunki.usc.edu Approved: Definitely not. Distribution: world Message-ID: 3l526t$pru@nunki.usc.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: nunki.usc.edu Status: RO
marlowe (marlowe@io.com) wrote: : : Finger was removed from the system by the administrators as a possible : : security hole. No _outgoing_ finger? Your sysad's an asshole. I've never had to try (for lack of asshole sysadmins to deal with), but I can't imagine you'd have any trouble ftp'ing and compiling your own finger client... it's unlikely that they're using packet filtering to deny services, not at a .edu site... ObHack: I needed to save the console output from a crash when I was trying to get NetBSD up on my Mac, and didn't want to have to re-type it.. I was using an off-brand wyse 50 clone terminal as my console.. I rebooted the system after the crash, leaving the crash on the terminal, moved the null-modem cable I had from the terminal's modem jack to the printer port, loaded a terminal program on the Mac, and hit the print screen key on the terminal. Save it to a text file, and I have my output... -- Patrick Killourhy Phone: (213) 745-9441
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