cannot turn of finger

[Tuan Nguyen]

Hello,

I am trying to turn off finger for my HP 9000 server running 11i. I comment out #finger in /etc/inetd.conf and /etc/services files and re-read "inetd -c". However, when I issue finger command at the prompt, finger still works... Can someone help me, please.

Thanks

Tuan N Nguyen

[Tim Nelson · Accepted solution]

finger will always work on the local machine as you are not using the network service.

finger user@host will fail if you have fingerd disabled as you correctly disabled it in inetd.conf.


If you wish to disable local fingers then I would chmod /usr/bin/finger to something more restrictive ( 700 ?) but this could make little difference as users can always grep user /etc/passwd

[Tuan Nguyen]

Tim,

Thank you very much for your quick response. That is so true.

Tuan N Nguyen

[Tuan Nguyen]

Thanks again, Tim