From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 26 13:48:55 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA03157 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 26 Feb 1998 13:48:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mhv.net (root@spice.mhv.net [199.0.0.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA02938 for ; Thu, 26 Feb 1998 13:48:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mgraffam@mhv.net) From: mgraffam@mhv.net Received: from localhost (phundie@port143.mhv.net [206.229.41.71]) by mhv.net (8.8.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA19605; Thu, 26 Feb 1998 16:48:22 -0500 Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 16:41:45 -0500 (EST) X-Sender: phundie@localhost To: Shawn Ramsey cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fingerd limiting? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Thu, 26 Feb 1998, Shawn Ramsey wrote: > I am trying to get fingerd to run an alternate program w/o much success. > My inetd.conf looks like this : > > finger stream tcp nowait nobody /usr/libexec/fingerd fingerd -s > -p /etc/finger.msg I used to do this kind of stuff with cat. try cat /etc/finger.msg instead of fingerd -s -p /etc/finger.msg .. As for it being safe.. it is thru inetd as nobody .. at it is a cat command.. I don't see much way to exploit cat. Michael J. Graffam (mgraffam@mhv.net) http://www.mhv.net/~mgraffam -- Philosophy, Religion, Computers, Crypto, etc "Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-incurred immaturity. Immaturity is the inability to use one's own understanding without the guidance of another. . .Sapere aude! Have the courage to use your own understanding!" - Immanuel Kant "What is Enlightenment?" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 5.0i for non-commercial use Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBNPXhnQKEiLNUxnAfAQHNXQP+JR3RcUuEzLs/fujVt7jtEFLLac5tdaXe Lx4ZVkzNTlEaICgbf3R6XtDKrRDjC9EVikkHAqcf0u/BFlYGrLUpI1y80hbDtiYw R85PfhVx9WNyzCdoMtRivVW0DGfAV/u/L0HVirUndzzMKiMWvUs7Ee5dZAQ/XMrB NQF3gsNQvQ8= =qXWQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message