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From: brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Finger logger: several questions
Message-ID: <14486:Apr1303:45:5691@kramden.acf.nyu.edu>
Date: 13 Apr 91 03:45:56 GMT
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In article <1991Apr13.025815.3741@agate.berkeley.edu> c60b-1eq@web-1g.berkeley.edu (Noam Mendelson) writes:
> In article <41042@netnews.upenn.edu> mfontana@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Mark A Fontana) writes:
> >I've been following the thread on finger logging programs, and was wondering
> >if there is any way to determine the login name of a remote fingerer, or
> No, you can't do that.

Well, you can if the remote host has an RFC 931 server. If you want to
set up an RFC 931 server under BSD, get pub/hier/inet/rfc931/authd.3.01
from stealth.acf.nyu.edu. Other files in the same directory include
patches to talk, sendmail, and nntpd to understand usernames provided by
the server. More applications (including the old version of authd, which
you shouldn't bother with) appear in the auth and authutil packages from
comp.sources.unix volume 22.

---Dan