Re: how to find out who has fingered me?
templin@bucknell.edu (Pete Templin) wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, 13 Jan 1997, Lawrence Chim wrote:
>
> > Rather than checking any log file, is it possible to find out who has
> > fingered a user. I heard that I can create a .plan file to do it, but
> > I don't know how to do it. Anyone knows how?
>
> Install cfinger (a debian package), a configurable finger server. It will
> create a .fingerlog in each user's home directory (if they are fingered),
> along with whatever central logging is normally performed by the program.
I'm not sure if this is a bug, or if I'm not versed in inetd stuff,
but after doing the debian install of cfinger, no one on my machine
could be fingered. I was able to fix this by changing the line in
inetd.conf from
finger stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/cfingerd
to
finger stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/cfingerd cfingerd
It looks like I'm giving logging and access-control over to cfinger and
leaving tcpd out of it. Security-wise, is this proper?
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