> I may have misspoken on this. I believe that there are exploits involving
> finger and executable code, but I'm not sure of the details since it's been
> a while. I gave the issue some thought last night after I posted this and
There have also been buffer overflows in _every_ version of finger since
time began. They keep saying they're fixed, and then somebody finds
another. Running such things as root is _BAD_. :)
Will
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