Date: Mon, 25 Aug 1997 22:14:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Brett Taylor <brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: weird finger behavior Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970825221403.3179M-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970816102634.237B-100000@peloton.physics.montana.edu>
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On Sat, 16 Aug 1997, Brett Taylor wrote: > Hi all, > > I have recently encountered a weird behavior from finger. I can finger > any user on my machine FROM my machine just fine. However when I attempt > to finger from outside my machine I get the following: > > lambic> finger brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu > [peloton.physics.montana.edu] > finger: permission denied > Fingerd is started up in my inetd.conf in secure mode and if you attempt > to finger from the outside w/ a: > > finger @peloton.physics.montana.edu > > eyou get the standard message that a username must be supplied. > > Any ideas on what's happening here? You don't happen to have tcpd installed? Also double-check that .plan is world-readable. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo
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