SUMMARY: Preventing "finger" request

From: CTRIBBET@INDYVAX.IUPUI.EDU
Date: Wed Feb 12 1992 - 00:48:22 CST

I would like to thank everyone who ansewered my request:

>We would like to stop finger requests from outside of our domain.
>How can this be done?
>
>CTRIBBET@IndyVax.Iupui.Edu

Most of the ansewers involved:

Commenting out the "/usr/etc/in.fingerd" in /etc/inetd.conf.

This prevents fingering from inside and outside of our domain.

I received several solutions to the problem:

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