>
> We use tcpd (tcp-wrappers) to block outside finger connections on a machine, but I
> tested it by going to a machine that didn't have wrappers installed and was able to
> use the above concatenation (user_at_hidden@free.machine) to look at the users online.
> So I still have to modify the source for the fingers on any machine that won't run
> wrappers (like IRIX).
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Patrick Ferguson - Systems Administrator patrick_at_dmv.com
> DelMarVa OnLine! - Salisbury, MD
>
If you run pidentd on you machines you can block access to nobody_at_ALL,
guest_at_ALL, root_at_ALL for fingerd thus blocking chained finger (fingerd
is usually run using those users in /etc/inetd.conf).
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Eilon Gishri, Tel-Aviv University Computation Center
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E-mail: eilon_at_aristo.tau.ac.il
Received on May 21 1996
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