Re: finger-bombing

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 "Nayfield, Rod" <nevets.oau.org!alfred!ucf-cs!mail.IConNet.COM!rnayfieldbea
 wrote this:

> isn't there a way that an admin can figure out who is the actual user who 
> actually fingered the attacked host? Isn't there some sort of identifying 
> daemon that would get the name of the guy that fingered the attacked host?

Well they could use 'ident', but that can't be trusted of course.

I think if you come up with a way of positively identifying the originating
username of a finger (or other tcp/ip request), you'll be both rich and
famous :)


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