Re: SunOS 4.1.4 fingerd

On Fri, 17 May 1996, Taner Halicioglu wrote:

> You can imagine what this will cause... :-) I trivial fix is to look for
> an '@' sign in the sent string (in in.fingerd) and deny the finger.

HP-UX 9.x does something along these lines. When you try to do:

finger @hp_machine_at_hp_machine

it gives you:

[hp_machine]
Remote finger not allowed: @hp_machine

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Received on May 17 1996