From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Mar 13 14:49:27 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id OAA01103 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 13 Mar 1995 14:49:27 -0800 Received: from brasil.moneng.mei.com (brasil.moneng.mei.com [151.186.20.4]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id OAA01097 for ; Mon, 13 Mar 1995 14:49:26 -0800 Received: by brasil.moneng.mei.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA19125; Mon, 13 Mar 95 14:55:43 CST From: Joe Greco Message-Id: <9503132055.AA19125@brasil.moneng.mei.com> Subject: Re: finger @ bug (fwd) To: Remy.Card@masi.ibp.fr (Remy CARD) Date: Mon, 13 Mar 1995 14:55:42 -0600 (CST) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199503131944.UAA10022@hebe.ibp.fr> from "Remy CARD" at Mar 13, 95 08:44:27 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4beta PL9] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1225 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > This has just been sent to the linux-security mailing list. Since > the FreeBSD's fingerd also has the bug, could someone please integrate the > fix? > > Remy Since there is no bug, I hope the answer is a loud NO! :-) This is not a bug, but is rather in reality questionable featurism. By default, FreeBSD 2.0 ships with "-s" installed on the inetd line for fingerd. (I always remove it... one of my pet peeves). Forwarding is not always undesirable: I have at least one use for it where there is no other solution. It's also been valuable when doing things like debugging SLIP sites with marginal routing: "finger @slip-host@slip-server" is a great way to see if the machine is actually down, or if the routing is just hosed (again). I also detest the "must provide username", although I certainly appreciate sites that require this crud. However, since this issue has already been addressed in a configurable way within the code, there should be no need to readdress it. :-) man 8 fingerd ... Joe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Greco - Systems Administrator jgreco@ns.sol.net Solaria Public Access UNIX - Milwaukee, WI 414/342-4847