Re: finger from another hosts
> > My host allow 'finger <user>' from any hosts~!
> >
> > How can I disallow doing it from others except my host ?
>
> In /etc/hosts.deny add something like the following:
> in.fingerd: ALL
>
> And then in /etc/hosts.allow add something like the following:
> in.fingerd: 1.2.3.4
>
> Where 1.2.3.4 is the IP address of the host that you want to allow.
>
there is a more radical way: edit /etc/inetd.conf and comment out the
line with in.fingerd. "killall -HUP inetd" - done.
you don't need the finger daemon at all, if you don't want remote hosts to
finger your system.
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