do you run suse personal firewall? if so, bring it down. or do you use filters? test it with either iptables -L or ipchains -L have a look at /etc/hosts.deny and /etc/hosts.allow, whether you allow finger for any other hosts than localhost too. (in etc/hosts.allow: finger: XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX to allow finger from XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX) regards, Stefan PS: don't allow finger for the internet, since it provides some useful information to compromise your system. -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Glenn Hancock [mailto:ghancock@mindspring.com] Gesendet: Donnerstag, 18. Oktober 2001 15:36 An: Suse Security Email Group Betreff: [suse-security] Finger Port I am trying to learn Linux and am new to the OS. I have installed with default installation and am now trying to figure a few things out. I want to use the finger server port 79 in order to test some things and then would like to disable it again. I have added necessary information to services, and to inetd.conf related to the man tables. I have rebooted. I can run finger locally but not from another computer on the network directed to my Linux box. I also try to look at processes running and I don't see inetd running. Is there something I have to do in order to get finger and telnet to operate because I haven't been able to find anything in your help files. Thanks, Glenn Hancock -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: suse-security-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands, e-mail: suse-security-help@suse.com
Even better... don't use tcp-wrapper! Start Ur services in the run-level that U need, and avoid the wrapper package ML Peer Stefan wrote:
do you run suse personal firewall? if so, bring it down. or do you use filters? test it with either iptables -L or ipchains -L
have a look at /etc/hosts.deny and /etc/hosts.allow, whether you allow finger for any other hosts than localhost too. (in etc/hosts.allow: finger: XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX to allow finger from XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX)
regards, Stefan
PS: don't allow finger for the internet, since it provides some useful information to compromise your system.
-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Glenn Hancock [mailto:ghancock@mindspring.com] Gesendet: Donnerstag, 18. Oktober 2001 15:36 An: Suse Security Email Group Betreff: [suse-security] Finger Port
I am trying to learn Linux and am new to the OS. I have installed with default installation and am now trying to figure a few things out. I want to use the finger server port 79 in order to test some things and then would like to disable it again. I have added necessary information to services, and to inetd.conf related to the man tables. I have rebooted.
I can run finger locally but not from another computer on the network directed to my Linux box. I also try to look at processes running and I don't see inetd running. Is there something I have to do in order to get finger and telnet to operate because I haven't been able to find anything in your help files.
Thanks,
Glenn Hancock
-- To unsubscribe, e-mail: suse-security-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands, e-mail: suse-security-help@suse.com
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