Re: this is terrible

[Steven Pritchard <steve@silug.org>]

Cloudmaster said:
> 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.

I suppose I should have mentioned that local finger doesn't require
any services running at all, in case it wasn't obvious.  If that's all
you want, just not running fingerd from inetd is the best way to go.

Steve
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