From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jun 7 11:22:55 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id LAA29607 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 7 Jun 1995 11:22:55 -0700 Received: from dvals1.larc.nasa.gov (dvals1.larc.nasa.gov [128.155.4.96]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id LAA29601 for ; Wed, 7 Jun 1995 11:22:54 -0700 Received: (from branson@localhost) by dvals1.larc.nasa.gov (8.6.11/8.6.9) id OAA26929; Wed, 7 Jun 1995 14:22:31 -0400 From: Branson Matheson Message-Id: <199506071822.OAA26929@dvals1.larc.nasa.gov> Subject: Re: Automount and finger. To: iznogood@iesd.auc.dk (Lars Albertsen) Date: Wed, 7 Jun 1995 14:22:30 -0400 (EDT) Cc: hackers@freefall.cdrom.com In-Reply-To: <199506071737.TAA01503@xiv.iesd.auc.dk> from "Lars Albertsen" at Jun 7, 95 07:37:48 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL21] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 724 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > Is there anyway that I can avoid mounting ALL users when some fool > uses finger? Right now my machine is mounting 447 user directories.... I am assuming you mean if they finger all your users. I have never seen the case where a single finger amd's all the directories in a map. If this is really becomming a problem, you can disable the fingerd in the /etc/inetd.conf file. -branson -- MATHESON, E BRANSON E.B.MATHESON@LaRC.NASA.GOV Mail Stop 931 COMPUTER SCIENCES CORPORATION NASA Langley Research Center Assigned to Operations Support Division Hampton, VA 23681-0001 Phone +1 804 864-9700