From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 25 22:15:55 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id WAA08586 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 25 Aug 1997 22:15:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts17-line10.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.227]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id WAA08561 for ; Mon, 25 Aug 1997 22:15:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id WAA03249; Mon, 25 Aug 1997 22:14:29 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 25 Aug 1997 22:14:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Brett Taylor cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: weird finger behavior In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 16 Aug 1997, Brett Taylor wrote: > Hi all, > > I have recently encountered a weird behavior from finger. I can finger > any user on my machine FROM my machine just fine. However when I attempt > to finger from outside my machine I get the following: > > lambic> finger brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu > [peloton.physics.montana.edu] > finger: permission denied > Fingerd is started up in my inetd.conf in secure mode and if you attempt > to finger from the outside w/ a: > > finger @peloton.physics.montana.edu > > eyou get the standard message that a username must be supplied. > > Any ideas on what's happening here? You don't happen to have tcpd installed? Also double-check that .plan is world-readable. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo