Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!kth.se!cyklop.nada.kth.se!paf From: paf@nada.kth.se (Patrik F{ltstr|m) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: a .plan question.. Message-ID: <1991Jan29.095905.10168@nada.kth.se> Date: 29 Jan 91 09:59:05 GMT References: <1991Jan28.233821.24491@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden Lines: 21 In article bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein) writes: >>anyone know a way to run a program from a .plan? it needs to be run at the >>time of the finger, and run by the fingeree. >to make .plan a FIFO and have a program which waits for an open and >then does its stuff (right? it's been a while since I've programmed >FIFOs, but it seems like that would work, a pty might work also.) > -Barry Shein Yes, that might work, but most finger daemons check the .plan that it is only a plain text-file, and also do not let control characters through. Otherwise you have some security problems in your system. You can with control-characters change the characteristic of the fingering persons terminal. So, just checking for plain text-files is not enough. I sure hope that all finger daemons in the future do this test. Patrik Faltstrom