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Date:      Wed, 7 Jun 1995 14:22:30 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Branson Matheson <branson@dvals1.larc.nasa.gov>
To:        iznogood@iesd.auc.dk (Lars Albertsen)
Cc:        hackers@freefall.cdrom.com
Subject:   Re: Automount and finger.
Message-ID:  <199506071822.OAA26929@dvals1.larc.nasa.gov>
In-Reply-To: <199506071737.TAA01503@xiv.iesd.auc.dk> from "Lars Albertsen" at Jun 7, 95 07:37:48 pm

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> Is there anyway that I can avoid mounting ALL users when some fool
> uses finger?  Right now my machine is mounting 447 user directories....

 I am assuming you mean if they finger all your users. I have never seen 
 the case where a single finger amd's all the directories in a map. If this
 is really becomming a problem, you can disable the fingerd in the 
 /etc/inetd.conf file. 


  -branson

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