From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 8 15:39:49 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA24142 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 8 Feb 1999 15:39:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mta1-rme.xtra.co.nz (mta.xtra.co.nz [203.96.92.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA24135 for ; Mon, 8 Feb 1999 15:39:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from junkmale@pop3.xtra.co.nz) Received: from wocker ([210.55.210.87]) by mta1-rme.xtra.co.nz (InterMail v04.00.02.07 201-227-108) with SMTP id <19990208233952.UKYA682101.mta1-rme@wocker>; Tue, 9 Feb 1999 12:39:52 +1300 From: "Dan Langille" Organization: The FreeBSD Diary To: Keith Anderson Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 12:40:08 +1300 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: finger Reply-to: junkmale@xtra.co.nz CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.01d) Message-Id: <19990208233952.UKYA682101.mta1-rme@wocker> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 9 Feb 99, at 9:48, Keith Anderson wrote: > Hi All > > > I wish to some how control 'finger' > > I would like to control which people can be fingered on my FBSD 2.8-REL.. > > ie > keith@well.. can be fingered > fred@well... can not > > Any help would be great Put a file called .nofinger in the home directory of fred. touch /home/free/.nofinger is enough. If you want more control about *who* can finger, tcp_wrappers will do that. See my website for details on how to install it. You then specify your people in /usr/local/etc/hosts.allow. cheers. -- Dan Langille The FreeBSD Diary http://www.FreeBSDDiary.com/freebsd To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message