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tcpd on IRIX (was Re: SunOS 4.1.4 fingerd)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (der Mouse)
Tue May 21 08:46:31 1996

Date:         Tue, 21 May 1996 06:32:50 -0400
Reply-To: Bugtraq List <BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG>
From: der Mouse <mouse@Collatz.McRCIM.McGill.EDU>
To: Multiple recipients of list BUGTRAQ <BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG>

>> just fyi, in case you hadn't tried it ... tcpd does a nice job of
>> stopping this nonsense.

> We use tcpd (tcp-wrappers) to block outside finger connections on a
> machine, but [...].  So I still have to modify the source for the
> fingers on any machine that won't run wrappers (like IRIX).

Huh?  We tcp-wrap our IRIX machines, no problem....

                                        der Mouse

                            mouse@collatz.mcrcim.mcgill.edu

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