From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 9 16:32:17 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA06784 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 9 Feb 1999 16:32:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from house.key.net.au (house.key.net.au [203.35.4.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA06755 for ; Tue, 9 Feb 1999 16:32:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from keith@apcs.com.au) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by house.key.net.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA00430; Wed, 10 Feb 1999 11:32:00 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from keith@apcs.com.au) Received: from well.apcs.com.au(203.35.4.19) via SMTP by mailgw.key.net.au, id smtpdXLW425; Wed Feb 10 11:31:59 1999 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <19990208233952.UKYA682101.mta1-rme@wocker> Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 11:32:13 +1100 (EST) Reply-To: keith@apcs.com.au Organization: Australia Power Control Systems P/L From: Keith Anderson To: Dan Langille Subject: Re: finger Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi Dan, tcp_wrappers will control who can connect to the system (services) I'm looking fo a way of controlling fingerd I have 2000 user's in 1 FBSD box. Some users do not wish to be able to be fingered and some users have messages in the finger for people to read. fingerd permissions ??? fingerd -p hmmm ? Thanks Keith Anderson On 08-Feb-99 Dan Langille wrote: > 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 --- "The box said 'Requires Windows 95, NT, or better,' so I installed FreeBSD." ---------------------------------- E-Mail: Keith Anderson Date: 10-Feb-99 Time: 11:07:22 Satelite Service 64K to 2Meg This message was sent by XFMail ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message