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From: paf@nada.kth.se (Patrik F{ltstr|m)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: a .plan question..
Message-ID: <1991Feb1.093815.23356@nada.kth.se>
Date: 1 Feb 91 09:38:15 GMT
References: <1991Jan28.233821.24491@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> <BZS.91Jan28205536@world.std.com> <1991Jan29.095905.10168@nada.kth.se> <1604@eru.mt.luth.se>
Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
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In article <1604@eru.mt.luth.se> sow@cad.luth.se (Sven-Ove Westberg) writes:
>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.

That is not the case with the GNU version of in.fingerd which is doing
all of the job. The finger program only send a one-line command to the
in.fingerd and prints out everything that it gets back.

	Patrik