[158] in Zephyr_Comments
Suggestion
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bjaspan@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Thu Feb 23 15:44:50 1989
From: <bjaspan@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 89 15:40:19 EST
To: zephyr-comments@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
This may have been intended in the original Zephyr design, but just in
case..
A user on system outside Athena cannot determine if a given Athena
user is currently logged on. However, couldn't our local fingerd
programs be modified to interrogate Zephyr for this information?
One way that I see to do it is this: make the user's exposure status
determine whether finger will be able to see him/her (ie: realm-visible
or announced.) Then, ZLocateUser could be modified to take another
argument, whether or not it is a network location request; the zephyr
server could then respond accordingly.
Better yet, create a new library function ZNetLocateUser, so all the
existing clients don't have to be changed.
Barr3y
