> > 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@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@dmv.com > DelMarVa OnLine! - Salisbury, MD > If you run pidentd on you machines you can block access to nobody@ALL, guest@ALL, root@ALL for fingerd thus blocking chained finger (fingerd is usually run using those users in /etc/inetd.conf). -- Eilon Gishri, Tel-Aviv University Computation Center Home 03-5078671 E-mail: eilon@aristo.tau.ac.il