Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 11:32:13 +1100 (EST) From: Keith Anderson <keith@apcs.com.au> To: Dan Langille <junkmale@xtra.co.nz> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: finger Message-ID: <XFMail.990210113213.keith@apcs.com.au> In-Reply-To: <19990208233952.UKYA682101.mta1-rme@wocker>
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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 <keith@apcs.com.au> 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
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