Summary: logging and disabling finger

From: system PRIVILEGED account- John F. Marten <root_at_tigger.oslc.org>
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 15:20:15 -0700

thanx to:
Martin Mokrejs Bob Sloane Billy Quinn Amy E. Skowronek Sean O'Connell
Goetz Golla Steven Ryan W. Niemes Paul Crittenden Jerome M Berkman
gene.vannostern Jeff Borah Robert A. Hayden Richard Tame

disable finger by commenting out its entry in inetd.conf (i should have
known/thought of that...kick here!)

enable logging for finger bu installing/using tcpwrappers or an enhanced
finger
utility like cfingerd.

again, thanx!

orig. post:
> AS 1000 5/333 running DU4.0b.
> searched the archives for this but came up with nada. #:>(
>
> two probably easy questions:
> 1:when someone fingers an account from the outside does that get
logged
> anywhere? i tried last and looked in sialog but didn't see anything.
> 2:how can i turn off fingers from the world?
> tia
Received on Wed Oct 21 1998 - 22:40:45 NZDT

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