What's wrong with "finger?"

Alexis Rosen alexis at panix.uucp
Mon Dec 10 22:50:10 AEST 1990


I've gotten a surprising amount of mail about this, so here's the answer:

/etc/Login and /etc/login don't write to a certain file in /adm, which
finger looks in. (/adm/something/lastlog?)

I've been told that the fix will likely (but not certainly) be in 2.0.1.

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Alexis Rosen
Owner/Sysadmin, PANIX Public Access Unix, NY
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