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Subject: Re: finger and 2.2-960303-SNAP 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 13 Mar 1996 07:25:00 +0200."
             <199603130525.HAA16198@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za> 
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 12:12:01 +0100
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From: Andras Olah <olah@cs.utwente.nl>
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On Sat, 13 Mar 1996 07:25:00 +0200, John Hay wrote:
> > 
> > >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.

OK, I got the hint! ;-)

There's a patch for finger on freefall (~olah/finger-mod.diff), to
disable T/TCP with the -T option.  I tested it here, if there are no
complaints I'll commit it in a few days.

Andras