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Re: SunOS 4.1.4 fingerd
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kevin at Paranoia)
Thu May 16 22:44:33 1996
Date: Thu, 16 May 1996 16:25:42 -0500
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From: Kevin at Paranoia <kevintx@ministry.paranoia.com>
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In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 16 May 1996 13:04:07 PDT."
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# Dave Dittrich wrote about "Re: SunOS 4.1.4 fingerd" on 05/16/96:
> On Thu, 16 May 1996, Andy Dills wrote:
> > Thus, we just added a user 0 (zero). Problem fixed.
>
> Looks like you'll have to add a few more users! ;)
Or the obvious solution.. replace your fingerd. There are some publicly
available "cleaner" fingerds or it's easy to remove the code that allows
for "empty" fingers.
kevin
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