From owner-freebsd-current Tue Mar 12 21:25:49 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id VAA00738 for current-outgoing; Tue, 12 Mar 1996 21:25:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za (zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za [146.64.24.58]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id VAA00733 for ; Tue, 12 Mar 1996 21:25:38 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jhay@localhost) by zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za (8.6.12/8.6.9) id HAA16198 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 13 Mar 1996 07:25:01 +0200 From: John Hay Message-Id: <199603130525.HAA16198@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za> Subject: Re: finger and 2.2-960303-SNAP To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD-current) Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 07:25:00 +0200 (SAT) In-Reply-To: <96Mar12.124306pst.177478@crevenia.parc.xerox.com> from "Bill Fenner" at Mar 12, 96 12:43:00 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8b] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > >And an option added that disables the use of T/TCP so that a user can > >finger a broken TCP system. ^^^^ > > You're right! Why don't we call it net.inet.tcp.rfc1644? > Root may be able to set it, but (I hope) users can't. So the normal user can't finger a broken TCP until he can get hold of the admin of the machine and convince him to switch net.inet.tcp.rfc1644 off. John -- John Hay -- John.Hay@csir.co.za