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>> 
>> 
>> 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.

Isn't that the default?

Your line:
> grep fingerd /etc/inetd.conf: 
>  finger stream tcp nowait nobody /usr/libexec/fingerd fingerd -s

My line:
finger stream  tcp nowait nobody /usr/libexec/fingerd fingerd -s

The systems gets /etc/passwd from my NIS-server.

Lars