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login can be used to hide from finger under SunOS 4.13u1

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Sacerdote)
Thu Jun 1 21:50:05 1995

Date: Thu, 1 Jun 1995 20:57:28 +0059 (EDT)
From: David Sacerdote <DSacerdo@world.std.com>
Reply-To: David Sacerdote <DSacerdo@world.std.com>
To: bugtraq@fc.net

I recently noticed that running login (no arguments) once logged in, and 
providing it with your username and password would hide one from finger 
requests under SunOS 4.13u1.  Has anybody else noticed this, under SunOS, or 
other unix variants?
			David Sacerdote

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