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Subject: Finger
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Date: Mon, 31-Aug-87 10:49:00 EDT
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I have Finger v 41.1.12. For those who've mentioned the desirable
property of turning off privs except when explicitly needed, anyone
taking the trouble would see that Finger has done this already. The
business about the finger.pln file being able to be misused is arguably
a problem with VMS (though Finger needs to be fixed to get around it)
and Enter. Actually the entire subject of file aliases needs to be better
addressed in VMS somehow; current implementation is DANGEROUS since it
poses risks of unintentional deletion or modification of files which
exist in multiple directories. A nifty utility for system managers would
be something that would allow you to go thru a disk and at least
IDENTIFY which files were aliases of each other. I suppose it'd not
be that hard to just use dir/file_id, followed by a sort/uniq pass,
to accomplish this...
	A compressed saveset of Finger appeared in the Fall '86 VAX
SIG tapes ([vax86d.rcaf86.fingsort...]).
Glenn Everhart