Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ncar!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!ub!acsu.buffalo.edu From: haozhou@acsu.buffalo.edu (hao zhou) Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer Subject: Re: Who's fingering me? Message-ID: <38324@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> Date: 30 Sep 90 15:28:13 GMT References: <38200@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> <1990Sep29.141154.3546@ibmpcug.co.uk> Sender: news@acsu.Buffalo.EDU Organization: SUNY @ Buffalo Lines: 26 Nntp-Posting-Host: autarch.acsu.buffalo.edu In article jwz@lucid.com (Jamie Zawinski) writes: >In article <1990Sep29.141154.3546@ibmpcug.co.uk> dylan@ibmpcug.co.uk (Matthew Farwell) writes: >> In article <38200@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> haozhou@acsu.buffalo.edu (hao zhou) writes: >>> Is it possible to figure out who have fingered you? >> You could:- > >This only works if the person fingering you is doing so from your machine. >It is far more interesting to know the identity of someone out on the net >who is fingering you. I believe this is impossible, because the finger >protocol requires no authentication - all you can know is the address of the That's what I assumed. Thank you for the good explaination. Another problem with my checkfinger program which was grabbed from the earlier posting to the question is that the program dies when the machine crashes and all the information like the counter for counting how many people have fingered is lost. When the machine is back up, the checkfinger is still not alive. During this period, the fingerer might have trouble unless the .plan is unlinked. Also you wouldn't know how many people finger you until you are logged on and turn on the checkfinger in the background. Is there anyway to solve this problem? -- Hao Zhou -- Internet:haozhou@acsu.buffalo.edu BITNET:haozhou%acsu.buffalo.edu@UBVM.BITNET UUCP: uunet!acsu.buffalo.edu!haozhou