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You're assuming that the port isn't being filtered out on a router
somewhere ... I'm not familiar with @Home's security practices.
Also, your home directory will probably need world executable for the
.plan file to be available to everyone ... and last, but not least, I
would have to say I don't use a .plan file ... they're archaic. :^)
I found something in a security session rather amusing - when you set
your sendmail config so that is doesn't allow VRFY or EXPN, the user
who sees the error response is instructed to 'maybe try finger.' As
finger is more likely to be turned off than the VRFY/EXPN, I had to
chuckle quietly. :^)
andrew.
On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, Tracy Nelson wrote:
> I think for security reasons most sites don't have the finger daemon
> (fingerd) running. Make sure this is running and that your finger port
> isn't disabled and then finger yourself@yoursite and see.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Whitman <mwhitman@home.com>
> To: plug@lists.nothinbut.net <plug@lists.nothinbut.net>
> Date: Wednesday, June 14, 2000 07:28
> Subject: [PLUG] .plan files
>
>
> |I want to be cool like those game developers and have a .plan file that can
> |be fingered from outside. Right now the .plan is something i can only
> |finger see when I am logged in under my account. i have tried changing
> file
> |permissions, but to no avail. i cant find any help files on this subject.
> |Any suggestions or links? Do people still use .plan files or is this
> |archaic?
>
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