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Date:      Thu, 26 Feb 1998 14:52:14 -0800 (PST)
From:      Shawn Ramsey <shawn@luke.cpl.net>
To:        mgraffam@mhv.net
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: fingerd limiting?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95.980226145108.7669E-100000@luke.cpl.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980226172258.9008A-100000@localhost>

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> finger  stream  tcp     nowait  nobody /bin/cat /etc/finger.msg
> 
> That last portion of inetd.conf is just what executable to run.. it
> has nothing to do with what port or service to run as. That is determined
> by the first field "finger" is an alias for 79. 79, of course, is the
> standard port for the finger service.
> 
> Make sure that nobody has read perms on /etc/finger.msg too.

Hmm. Now I get this :

/usr/home/shawn> finger shawn@cpl.net
[cpl.net]
shawn


inetd.conf reads like this :

finger  stream  tcp     nowait  nobody /bin/cat /etc/finger.msg


any other ideas?




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