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From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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On Sun, 4 Aug 1996, Randy DuCharme wrote:

> Real dumb question....
> 
> If I finger my account from a remote telnet session, it replies 
> 
> Permission Denied.
> 
> Where do I look ( man pages etc ) to find the solution for this one??

Do you have the ability to run finger on the source machine then?

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major