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Date:      Tue, 5 Dec 2000 00:51:51 +0100 (CET)
From:      Janko van Roosmalen <acs.van.roosmalen@hccnet.nl>
To:        James Lim <jameslpin@pacific.net.sg>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Setting information in finger reply
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.10012050030540.427-100000@parmenides.utp.net>
In-Reply-To: <001d01c05de5$8d00aea0$2e189cca@sleipnir>

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I think  allowing incoming finger requests is a bad idea securitywise. 

To enable finger you have to check if it is enabled in your "inetd.conf"
file and possibly adjust your "/etc/hosts.allow" file.
According to "man finger" you could put your PGP key in a ".plan" file in
your home directory.

The book "Building Internet Firewalls" has a few recommendations for
running a finger service on page 588.

BTW does the Singapore government allow you to to use PGP?

===Janko van Roosmalen - Vught - Netherlands===

On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, James Lim wrote:

> Hi there,
> 
>             Noticed some users here are using "finger host@domain.com" for
> pgp key. My question is, how do i go about doing it? Thanks alot :)
> 
> Regards,
> 
> James Lim
> 
> 
> 
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