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

[Theodore Jones <theoj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Fabrice,

Merci for responding.  I guess my root question is:

>is< finger turned on by default with a new RaQ3, or >not?<.

When I did this:

    ps aux | fgrep finger

it only revealed this:

    root     17110  0.0  0.0  1160  408 pts/2    S    13:45   0:00 fgrep
finger

and when I did this:

    fgrep finger /etc/services

I got this:

    finger          79/tcp
    cfinger         2003/tcp                        # GNU Finger

The later output would make me worried that finger is indeed on?  It
also reveals another question... what is this "GNU finger" ...?!

Merci encore une fois,

~ Theo



"Fabrice Prémel" wrote:

> 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.
>
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