Re: this is terrible

[Cloudmaster <sauer@cloudmaster.ml.org>]

On Wed, 10 Feb 1999, Steven Pritchard wrote:
> charles@lunargraphics.net said:
> > how do you not allow users on foreign hosts to finger accounts on your
> > local machine, yet allow users on the local machine to finger accounts on
> > the same machine?
> 
> Comment finger out in /etc/inetd.conf & restart inetd.

What about using tcpd as a wrapper and only allowing on the finger port from
anywhere in the acceptable domain?  That'd be easier to extend should you
decide you want some outside fingering... :)  Of course, moving a cursor,
going to insert mode, and putting in a pound sign's easy too.

--Danny


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