[1184] in linux-security and linux-alert archive
Re: [linux-security] Finger Doubt
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (M Shariful Anam)
Sat Sep 28 08:15:01 1996
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 18:04:48 +0600 (GMT+0600)
From: M Shariful Anam <shuman@triton.kaifnet.com>
To: Richard Huveneers <richard@hekkihek.hacom.nl>
Cc: linux-security@tarsier.cv.nrao.edu
In-Reply-To: <526ss0$26q@zeus.hekkihek.hacom.nl>
On 23 Sep 1996, Richard Huveneers wrote:
> Did a lot of searching on the web and found 'ffingerd'. This one looks
> very secure to me. For instance, it's not capable of forwarding finger
> queries and global (@...) finger queries. It should be run as nobody and
I'm using cfingerd for some time. It doesn't support forwarding finger,
or @host queries (actually it is configurable).
> supports the '.nofinger' file in the users home-dir.
This is supported by cfingerd too.
BTW, I wanted to contact Ken Hollis for cfingerd, but my mails got
bounced. Anyone got his current email?
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M Shariful Anam <shuman@kaifnet.com>
Kaifnet Services -- Bangladesh
