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Date:      Wed, 7 Jun 1995 20:45:14 +0200
From:      Lars Albertsen <iznogood@iesd.auc.dk>
To:        "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
Cc:        iznogood@iesd.auc.dk (Lars Albertsen), hackers@freefall.cdrom.com
Subject:   Re: Automount and finger.
Message-ID:  <199506071845.UAA02534@xiv.iesd.auc.dk>
In-Reply-To: <199506071835.LAA02858@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
References:  <199506071737.TAA01503@xiv.iesd.auc.dk> <199506071835.LAA02858@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>

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

> Yea, turn off the ``all user'' flag to fingerd: man 8 fingerd:
> -s Enable secure mode.  Queries without a user name are
> rejected and forwarding of queries to other remote hosts is
> denied.

Isn't that the default?

Your line:
> grep fingerd /etc/inetd.conf: 
>  finger stream tcp nowait nobody /usr/libexec/fingerd fingerd -s

My line:
finger stream  tcp nowait nobody /usr/libexec/fingerd fingerd -s

The systems gets /etc/passwd from my NIS-server.

Lars





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