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From: c60b-1eq@web-1c.berkeley.edu (Noam Mendelson)
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Subject: Re: Fingeree wants to keep track of the fingerer
Keywords: finger monitor
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Date: 4 Apr 91 06:55:45 GMT
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In article <10290@hub.ucsb.edu> 6600hubb@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (Richard Hubbell) writes:
>
>	Does unix offer a method for keeping track of each
>occurence of being fingered?  i.e. if someone fingers me is there
>a way that I can tell who it was that fingered me? 

You could easily determine which machine you are being fingered from
by monitoring connections on TCP port 79.  There is no easy way to
narrow it down to a specific user.

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