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On Sun, Aug 10, 2003 at 04:36:56PM -0700, Seemant Kulleen wrote: |
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> I'm inclined to agree with Kurt here. I don't know that we should be |
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> opening more ports than necessary, for starters, and I don't know that |
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> the benefits necessarily outweigh the risks here. |
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Sure, running services you dont need is never a good idea, but crippling |
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a box to be extra paranoid about security is a shame. |
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Besides, finger is a mature protocol and the implementations available |
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are widely used by some of the most respected |
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developers/projects/universities out there, and installed by default on |
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many systems, (Slackware, fex.) Finger is also really simple, you can |
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audit it in a few hours if you want to. |
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> The idea for the |
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> devrel dev/herd/project pages will be to have a uniform portal to all |
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> sorts of info. |
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thats cool, but im certain keeping a .plan up to date will be easier |
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than updating a webpage, and distributing keys with finger couldnt be |
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simpler. |
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imho, running fingerd also says something about a project..UNIX |
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heritage, classic internet, and things like that :) |
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taviso@××××××××××××.org | finger me for my gpg key. |
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