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Re: fingerd problems
From: pickerin () fuse net (Robert A. Pickering Jr.)
Date: Fri, 17 May 1996 14:08:02 -0400
On Fri, 17 May 1996, Brian Mitchell wrote:
Some www servers also include the 'finger' cgi program, which can be used in much the same way, ie: lynx http://www.cgis.net/cgi-bin/finger\?user@host Brian Mitchell brian () saturn net "I never give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it's hell" - H. Truman
Additionally, this a method often used to get past a firewall configuration where the WWW server is a "trusted host" but the user on the Internet is not. We've removed all the "standard" cgi-bin programs from all our hosted websites for this very reason. -- Robert A. Pickering Jr. Internet Services Manager Cincinnati Bell Telephone pickerin () fuse net A Rough Whimper of Insanity (Information Superhighway) PGP key ID: 75CAFF7D 1995/05/09 PGP Fingerprint: B1 63 0C 09 D8 2E 5D 69 BB 61 A2 92 22 37 63 C3
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