Re: SunOS 4.1.4 fingerd

[eilon () aristo tau ac il (Eilon Gishri)]

> We use tcpd (tcp-wrappers) to block outside finger connections on a machine, but I
> tested it by going to a machine that didn't have wrappers installed and was able to
> use the above concatenation (user@hidden@free.machine) to look at the users online.
> So I still have to modify the source for the fingers on any machine that won't run
> wrappers (like IRIX).
>
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> Patrick Ferguson - Systems Administrator                      patrick () dmv com
> DelMarVa OnLine! - Salisbury, MD
If you run pidentd on you machines you can block access to nobody@ALL,
guest@ALL, root@ALL for fingerd thus blocking chained finger (fingerd
is usually run using those users in /etc/inetd.conf).

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