Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!lll-winken!uop!quack!mrapple From: mrapple@quack.sac.ca.us (Nick Sayer) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: Finger logger: several questions Message-ID: Date: 17 Apr 91 14:30:24 GMT References: <41042@netnews.upenn.edu> <1991Apr13.025815.3741@agate.berkeley.edu> Distribution: na Organization: The Duck Pond, Stockton, CA Lines: 17 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 Well, yes he can, sort of. RFC931 provides the username of the opposite end, providing the system on the other end runs the auth demon. Not many sites do. And since you have to rely on the other end to provide authentication, it's not terribly trustworthy. >No, you can't do that. -- Nick Sayer | Think of me as a recombinant | RIP: Mel Blanc mrapple@quack.sac.ca.us | Simpson: Homer's looks, Lisa's | 1908-1989 N6QQQ [44.2.1.17] | brains, Bart's manners, and | May he never 209-952-5347 (Telebit) | Maggie's appetite for TV. --Me | be silenced.