Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!mintaka!bloom-beacon!eru!sow From: sow@cad.luth.se (Sven-Ove Westberg) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: a .plan question.. Message-ID: <1604@eru.mt.luth.se> Date: 31 Jan 91 18:57:59 GMT References: <1991Jan28.233821.24491@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> <1991Jan29.095905.10168@nada.kth.se> Organization: University of Lulea, Sweden Lines: 26 In article <1991Jan29.095905.10168@nada.kth.se> paf@nada.kth.se (Patrik F{ltstr|m) writes: |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. | It is actually not the finger daemon that does the test it is the finger program it self. The finger daemon is a small stupid thing that just use the finger program to get the work done. So I dont think its is simple to find out who is fingering you. Sven-Ove Westberg, CAD, University of Lulea, S-951 87 Lulea, Sweden.