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fingerd trouble

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (efoo@MIT.EDU)
Mon Apr 10 09:15:50 1995

From: efoo@MIT.EDU
To: netbsd-help@MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 1995 09:15:31 EDT

Hello.  I've been getting messages like this lately from my fingerd whenever
anyone fingers my machine:

fooworld inetd [495]: getpwnam: nobody : no such user

even when just typing finger @fooworld or finger username@fooworld where
username is a valid username.  I can't figure out why it's not working.

Also, is there a way to log fingers, FTP, and telnet access to my machine?
I would like to know the date, time and IP address or name of machines
that tried any of those three things.

Thanks in advance.
Edwin Foo

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