Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Tue, 9 Feb 1999 12:40:08 +1300
From:      "Dan Langille" <junkmale@xtra.co.nz>
To:        Keith Anderson <keith@apcs.com.au>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: finger
Message-ID:  <19990208233952.UKYA682101.mta1-rme@wocker>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.990209094828.keith@apcs.com.au>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On 9 Feb 99, at 9:48, Keith Anderson wrote:

> Hi All
> 
> 
> I wish to some how control 'finger'
> 
> I would like to control which people can be fingered on my FBSD 2.8-REL..
> 
> ie 
>         keith@well.. can be fingered
>         fred@well... can not
> 
> Any help would be great

Put a file called .nofinger in the home directory of fred.  touch 
/home/free/.nofinger is enough.

If you want more control about *who* can finger, tcp_wrappers will do 
that.  See my website for details on how to install it.  You then specify 
your people in /usr/local/etc/hosts.allow.  

cheers.

--
Dan Langille
The FreeBSD Diary
http://www.FreeBSDDiary.com/freebsd

To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?19990208233952.UKYA682101.mta1-rme>