Finger applet?

[Rich Felker]

On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 06:42:06PM +0200, walter harms wrote:
> 
> security:
> finger return login information and may used to check for presens on a 
> remote machine.
> 
> i read .project and .plan that can be fatal if you do evil things like
> ln -s  /proc/kmem ~/.plan  feel free to expand the idea.

This is utter nonsense. If you're running fingerd as root you get what
you deserve. This is not a vulnerability in finger but a PEBKAC error
from id-10-t users setting the wrong permissions.

Rich