[4767] in Athena Bugs
rt 6.4R: fingerd (on athena.mit.edu)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan I. Kamens)
Sun Apr 15 02:26:51 1990
Date: Sun, 15 Apr 90 02:26:37 -0400
From: "Jonathan I. Kamens" <jik@pit-manager.MIT.EDU>
To: qjb@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: bugs[4304]
From: qjb@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 90 21:54:36 -0500
System name: soup
Type and version: RTPC-ROMPC 6.4R
Display type: apa16
What were you trying to do?
See what information finger@athena gave that hesinfo
user passwd didn't (if any)
What's wrong:
finger @athena makes poor assumptions based on the
results of hesiod (or moira since hesinfo bla passwd and the
finger database come from the same source...)
1. This should probably have been sent to postmaster rather than bugs,
because it deals with software on the mailhub that is not in the
standard release.
2. Since I wrote the program, it's good that the bug report happened
to fall into my hands :-). I've fixed it (I just got time now to
do it) and sent it off to the postmaster for installation on the
mailhub; I don't know when he'll get a chance to install it.
3. The problem was that when I tried to emulate the MIT/Tech Square
expansion in /usr/athena/finger, I flubbed it slightly. In
/usr/athena/finger, an 'M' in the last place of the office address
expands to " MIT", and a 'T' in the last place expands to " Tech
Sq.". However, this expansion only happens if there are no spaces
in the address, and I wasn't checking this in my code.
jik
