[14137] in Athena Bugs
rsaix 7.7N: zephyr
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeffrey E Henrikson)
Thu Jan 25 20:23:38 1996
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 1996 20:23:33 EST
From: Jeffrey E Henrikson <jehenrik@MIT.EDU>
System name: m2-225-11
Type and version: POWER 7.7N
Display type: POWER_Gt1
What were you trying to do?
Be fingerable outside MIT, but not announce my logins.
What's wrong:
Zeyphr does not do this yet, although the documentation leads one to believe it does, unless you look in the fine print under "bugs" in the zctl manpage.
What should have happened:
Well, obviously these exposure levels would be a good and almost necesarry feature. I, for one, would like to see them coded sometime in the semi-near (let's not be too demanding) future, but if this is simply not reality, at least fix the documentation. It threw me off for a while reading all of this junk about stuff that doesn't exist. Also, for selfish reasons, I would like the default behavior of zephyr to be more like net-visible and net-announced rather than realm-visible and realm-announced. If you are not going to code the distinction, at least expose athena to the outside world by default. I see no reason why workstations should be sheltered from being fingered outside MIT. Someone has informed me that this would be against some athena policy or another, but was it not so that before vacation the athena.mit.edu finger server returned the current login site, if any, of the user, even from outside MIT? I never actually tried it outside MIT, but I would assume t!
hat it returned the same informati
on to any domain.
Please describe any relevant documentation references:
zctl manpage
