I've replaced finger altogether for off-site finger requests with a nice little perl script guaranteed to confuse and amuse. Try fingering [EMAIL PROTECTED] Try it several times :)
I'll be glad to share the script with anyone who wants it. Thus spake Will Lowe on Mon, May 22, 2000 at 01:51:41PM CDT > > 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 > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > | [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] | > | http://www.cis.udel.edu/~lowe/ | > | PGP Public Key: http://www.cis.udel.edu/~lowe/index.html#pgpkey | > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > -- Lindsay Haisley | "Everything works | PGP public key FMP Computer Services | if you let it" | available at [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (The Roadie) | <http://www.fmp.com/pubkeys> http://www.fmp.com | |
