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  From: Andrew Pullin <andrew@hotspurbgc.com.au>
  To  : steve <steve@cyberqual.com>
        <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Sun, 27 May 2001 23:48:24 +1000

Re: dot.plans

Hi There,
    If you don't have one then create one using your
preferred editor, it is a simple ASCII text file. .plan
files usually live in a users home directory and because
they are "." files they are normally not listed unless you
do an "all" listing eg ls -la . I am not sure about this one
but they probably have to be "readable" by "all" to be seen,
but I am not sure exactly what the finger command looks for.

    Although I didn't look into how it was done, when I was
at uni a friend had a .plan that appeared to run a bash
script. Again I don't know exactly how it was done, but
depending on how finger works, I am not all that convinced a
scripting .plan file is very secure either, but it can be
done.

    Hope this helps,
        Cheers!
            Andrew.


----- Original Message -----
From: steve <steve@cyberqual.com>
To: <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
Sent: Sunday, May 27, 2001 10:32 PM
Subject: dot.plans


> Does anyone know where i can find ascii '.plan' files for
finger?
>
> Thanx
>
>
> Steve
>
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