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From: Seppo Kallio <kallio@beeblebrox.pccc.jyu.fi>
To: Donald Burr <d_burr@ix.netcom.com>
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Subject: Re: how to un-restrict finger?
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Delete the option of finger in /etc/inetd.conf

Seppo

On Thu, 1 Feb 1996, Donald Burr wrote:
> I notice that FreeBSD finger is setup so that, when someone does "finger 
> @my.machine.edu", they instead of getting a listing of all on-line users, 
> they get "must provide username".  I know that some people like this more 
> secure/private/whatever way of finger, but I don't.  How do I make finger 
> work like it should?  Do i have to hack on the sources for fingerd, or is 
> there a command-line switch or something I can use on it?  or what?  
> Please let me know, thanks!
> 
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