Partying like it's 1977!

I recently stumbled on the finger protocol through happynetbox and thought it was pretty cool, so I wrote a finger server that reads user data from text files. It's a pretty simple protocol, but I think it's a fun way to enable a simple smolnet-style status page :)

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[–] [S] 1 point 1 month ago

That's really cool! Unfortunately I have ethical issues with systemd, so I'd rather not support it as a first-class option in documentation or out of the box configs. Thankfully something taking over port 79 isn't a concern on any of my threat models for the software. I still require root for low ports on all my systems (to stop takeovers of 80, 443, 22, etc) but something listening on the finger port is going to be pretty harmless. Just don't try to finger hunter2@example.com :p

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