[comp.sys.sun] finger security hole

byers@UKANVAX.BITNET (12/30/88)

A flexible way to plug the finger security hole without a source license
is to supply your own version of finger in /usr/local.  If In.fingerd
finds a /usr/local/finger, it will use that instead of /usr/ucb/finger.
(At least that is the way it is on my SUNOS 4.0 system.)  The
/usr/local/finger might do a setiud and setgid and then invoke
/usr/ucb/finger.  Alternatively, /usr/local/finger might just apologize
and exit.

R.B.