Finger applet?

walter harms wharms at bfs.de
Sat Apr 29 16:42:06 UTC 2006


security:
finger return login information and may used to check for presens on a 
remote machine.

i read .project and .plan that can be fatal if you do evil things like
ln -s  /proc/kmem ~/.plan  feel free to expand the idea.

What do you plan to do with finger ? (snmp looks more interessting)

re,
  wh

Jason Schoon wrote:
> On 4/29/06, Rob Sullivan <cogito.ergo.cogito at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I recently found I needed finger, and was surprised to find that we (that
>> is, Busybox) don't have it - so I'm writing one. Would this be worthy of
>> inclusion?
>>
> 
> Seems very much like the type of applet that should be in Busybox.
> 
> I would suggest that it be off in the default configuration though, as
> finger is known for being a security hole in many cases.  I have never
> personally used it, even back when it was much more popular than today, 
> so I
> don't know the exact problems.  A quick google search could probably clear
> that up.
> 
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