Re: [cobalt-security] finger on/off?

[Fabrice Prémel <fabrice@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 25 Sep 2000 11:02:15 -0700, cobalt-security@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
wrote:
>Hey Folks,
>
>When I do a "netstat -l" (list listening ports) on my Raq3i, it 
>seems to
>me that it says finger is on and operating:
>
>Proto    Recv-Q    Send-Q    Local Address     Foreign Address
>State
>tcp        0                0             *:finger
>*:*                     LISTEN
>
>
>.... perhaps I interpret this wrong however?  When I look in 
>inetd.conf,
>it looks like finger is commented out by default?
>
>Can anyone clear this confusion for me?

Do the following :
ps aux |fgrep finger

to see if it runs standalone.

Also do :
fgrep finger /etc/services

to see if the services file is correct. Finger should be on port 79.

You might also want to restart inetd in case it was forgotten :
kill -SIGHUP `cat /var/run/inetd.pid`

See if that helps,

Fabrice Prémel.