Date: Tue, 25 Apr 1995 00:31:37 -0700 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@estienne.CS.Berkeley.EDU> To: Network Coordinator <nc@ain.charm.net> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: finger forwarding/tracking? Message-ID: <199504250731.AAA21951@estienne.cs.berkeley.edu> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 25 Apr 1995 01:36:37 EDT." <Pine.BSF.3.91.950425013407.26618A-100000@ain.charm.net>
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> >I have been making some modifications to fingerd to allow me to not only >know what system is making the contact but who they are trying to finger, >etc. I have seen some systems that are able to figure out what system a >finger request originated from even if the request was forwarded. In some >cases, systems have even been able to tell what user ran finger in the >first place. > >This seems to be mostly on systems that are able to tell what USER (from >a system) is telneting to them. Any ideas on how I could go about setting >that up? > >Where would I be able to find that sort of information about incoming >requests? > >Thanks, > >-Jerry. Take a look at the idendtd package. It does all of this without modification to other daemons like finger. The only catch is that the machine performing the request must also be running identd. -- Justin T. Gibbs ============================================== TCS Instructional Group - Programmer/Analyst 1 Cory | Po | Danube | Volga | Parker | Torus ==============================================
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