Re: fingerd

[Jason Eggleston <jegglest@chaph.usc.edu>]

hmmm... nope.  I deleted those files, and still the same

$ finger @localhost
[localhost]

$

is all that happens...  I think it has something to do with inetd.conf:

finger          stream  tcp     nowait  nobody  /usr/sbin/tcpd  /usr/sbin/in.fingerd -w -f

it looks good to me, but it doesn't work.

Jason Eggleston
http://www-scf.usc.edu/~jegglest/

On Thu, 2 May 1996 Dirk.Eddelbuettel@qed.econ.queensu.ca wrote:

> 
>   Jason Eggleston writes:
>   Jason>  How does one get this to work?  It's running but it won't let other
>   Jason> hosts finger me.  The man page says to add -f to the fingerd
>   Jason> command, but where and how?
> 
> Quick shot from the hip: I bet you are looking at the wrong configuration
> file. Check your /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny files to specify *who*
> is allowed to get *what* from your machine. The man page to consult is
> hosts_access(5).
> 
> --
> Dirk Eddelb"uttel                              http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/~edd
> 
>