From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jun 7 11:36:35 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id LAA00301 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 7 Jun 1995 11:36:35 -0700 Received: from gndrsh.aac.dev.com (gndrsh.aac.dev.com [198.145.92.241]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id LAA00288 for ; Wed, 7 Jun 1995 11:36:30 -0700 Received: (from rgrimes@localhost) by gndrsh.aac.dev.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id LAA02858; Wed, 7 Jun 1995 11:35:56 -0700 From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <199506071835.LAA02858@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> Subject: Re: Automount and finger. To: iznogood@iesd.auc.dk (Lars Albertsen) Date: Wed, 7 Jun 1995 11:35:56 -0700 (PDT) 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 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 634 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > Hi, > > Is there anyway that I can avoid mounting ALL users when some fool > uses finger? Right now my machine is mounting 447 user directories.... Yea, turn off the ``all user'' flag to fingerd: man 8 fingerd: -s Enable secure mode. Queries without a user name are rejected and forwarding of queries to other remote hosts is denied. grep fingerd /etc/inetd.conf: finger stream tcp nowait nobody /usr/libexec/fingerd fingerd -s -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Custom computers for FreeBSD