From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 21 18:58:49 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A040437B401 for ; Thu, 21 Nov 2002 18:58:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au (ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au [128.250.20.3]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7351E43E42 for ; Thu, 21 Nov 2002 18:58:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jrhoden@unimelb.edu.au) Received: from elkanah.its.unimelb.edu.au (elkanah.its.unimelb.edu.au [128.250.18.41]) by ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id gAM2wgiB009907 for ; Fri, 22 Nov 2002 13:58:46 +1100 (EST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" From: JacobRhoden Organization: University of Melbourne To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: enabling finger - why not? Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 13:58:42 +1100 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.4] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200211221358.42586.jrhoden@unimelb.edu.au> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I have a machine which has a number of users, and its a 'possibility' tha= t=20 they could do something they shouldnt. What are the reasons which I may n= ot=20 want finger enabled?=20 (The machine has sendmail and httpd, so a DoS through the finger port is=20 probably not an issue) Regards, Jacob Jacob Rhoden Phone: +61 3 8344 6102 ITS Division Email: jrhoden@unimelb.edu.au Melbourne University Mobile: +61 403 788 386 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message