Re: finger-bombing

[shipley () merde dis org (Pete Shipley)]

> I was just wondering with all this finger hassle that's been going on, 
> 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?
> I thought I saw an RFC on something like this, or am I wrong? 
> Tnx for any replies to this one...

yea it is called identd, I have modified my rlogin, telnet, ftpd & popper
servers to do identd queries on all connections.  

        -Pete