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From: wOOwOO <woowoo@mark.petra.ac.id>
To: Randy DuCharme <randyd@nconnect.net>
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Subject: Re: finger replies "permission denied"
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On Tue, 17 Sep 1996, Randy DuCharme wrote:

> Greetings,
>      Can't seem to figure out why finger replies "permission denied" when trying
> to finger a remote host on my lan.  It returns "connection refused" when trying 
> to
> finger a host outside of my lan.  If I run finger with no arguments, or an accou
> nt
> on the machine I'm trying to run finger on, it seems to function normally.  
> Permissions all appear to be OK and I haven't changed /etc/inetd.conf.  What am
> I missing?

check /tmp
the permission should be set to open for everyone :)

regards,
Agustinus :)