On Fri, 3 May 1996, Guy Maor wrote:
> On Fri, 3 May 1996, Jason Eggleston wrote:
>
> > For those following this thread, someone else has been helping
> > me off the list and figured out I didn't have a 'nobody' in my
> > /etc/passwd file.
I just added the correct entry for nobody, and it works fine now.
I believe it is a bug, seeing as it was from a fresh install from the
debian 1.1 beta. Maybe I should have said yes to the question of
updating the /etc/passwd. I figured the initial installation would
produce an adequate one n
On Fri, 3 May 1996, Jason Eggleston wrote:
> For those following this thread, someone else has been helping me off the
> list and figured out I didn't have a 'nobody' in my /etc/passwd file.
The problem was that nobody had a shell of /dev/null (check this in
your /etc/passwd to see if that's y
chaph and castor are usc's hosts. I'm at bacon.eggleston.com (not up 24-7
yet, but up a lot, and not public either :)), and running Debian 1.1 beta.
I haven't updated the linux part of my web page in ages... I'll do that
right now. I should say that slackware completely crashed my system, but
t
I didn't have any trouble finger-ing you either at chaph.usc.edu or at
castor.usc.edu. Perhaps you've solved the problem by now. If not,
what site did you have trouble with? Also, what versions of netbase
(which contains tcpd) and netstd (which contains in.fingerd) are you using?
I notice tha
hmmm... nope. I deleted those files, and still the same
$ finger @localhost
[localhost]
$
is all that happens... I think it has something to do with inetd.conf:
finger stream tcp nowait nobody /usr/sbin/tcpd
/usr/sbin/in.fingerd -w -f
it looks good to me, but it doesn't wor
Jason Eggleston writes:
Jason> How does one get this to work? It's running but it won't let other
Jason> hosts finger me. The man page says to add -f to the fingerd
Jason> command, but where and how?
Quick shot from the hip: I bet you are looking at the wrong configuration
file. Check
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