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Date:      Wed, 7 Jun 1995 12:16:51 -0700 (PDT)
From:      "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
To:        iznogood@iesd.auc.dk (Lars Albertsen)
Cc:        iznogood@iesd.auc.dk, hackers@freefall.cdrom.com
Subject:   Re: Automount and finger.
Message-ID:  <199506071916.MAA02953@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
In-Reply-To: <199506071845.UAA02534@xiv.iesd.auc.dk> from "Lars Albertsen" at Jun 7, 95 08:45:14 pm

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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?

As of 2.0 something it is...

> 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.

Humm... don't know what is going on then..


-- 
Rod Grimes                                      rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com
Accurate Automation Company                   Custom computers for FreeBSD



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