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- From: kec@buitc.bu.edu (Kenneth Cleary)
- Newsgroups: alt.hackers
- Subject: Re: "Catching Peppers" program
- Message-ID: <108153@bu.edu>
- Date: 24 Jan 93 22:29:44 GMT
- References: <1j5108INNfrb@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>
- Sender: news@bu.edu
- Distribution: alt.hackers
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- Approved: I_dont_need_no_stinking_approval.
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- In article <1j5108INNfrb@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> friedenb@egr.msu.edu (Gedaliah Friedenberg) writes:
- >A few months ago there was a script posted which send mail
- >to yourself whenever your account was fingered. In the mail
- >was the name and email address of the person fingering your
- >account. I think that the post was entitled "Catching Peepers"
- >or something like that. Could someone repost it, or send it
- >to me? Thanks
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- SysAdmins who want to see who is finger'ing their user's (pun intended ;-)
- {but don't time to rewrite fingerd}
- may want to take a look at /etc/syslog.conf ...
- (particularly those entries that configure logging of daemonic activity ;-)
- {OK, so it might not give you the username, but it will give the machine)
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- Obhack:
- Hey, so you think your unattended news reader is cool?
- Well, how about my automated news writer that parsed the original article
- and then wrote an automatic reply without my ever having had to read it ;-)
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- {just kidding}
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