Re: report finger gives long list of users

["Robert G. Ferrell" <root () rgfsparc cr usgs gov>]

> I can confirm this "feature" on solaris 8.
>
> "finger 0@localhost" & "finger 1234567@localhost" both return the list of
> users.

Well, not to flaunt the obvious, but the best solution to this is

# grep finger /etc/inetd.conf

#finger stream  tcp     nowait  nobody  /usr/sbin/in.fingerd    in.fingerd

;-)

Cheers,

RGF

Robert G. Ferrell, CISSP
http://rferrell.home.texas.net/rgflit.html
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