disable finger

**Black666** · 07-07-2002, 09:40 PM

Hi!
I've read the thread about finger and I checked it on my machines.
Both, Suse and RedHat give me

Code:

finger: cannot create socket / connet host

Does this mean that it is disabled?
Also, if I check my inetd.conf on Suse I get this:

Code:

black666@starbase:/etc&gt; cat inetd.conf | grep finger
finger  stream  tcp     nowait  nobody  /usr/sbin/tcpd  in.fingerd -w
black666@starbase:/etc&gt;

Seems like it is started ???
How do you check if it is enabled or not .. and how do you disable it?

Thnx.

**SpookyEddy** · 07-08-2002, 12:59 AM

Hi,

To check if its running just do "netstat -l" & if you get anything listening on port 79 its probably the finger daemon. You could also do "ps ax | grep finger" & see if that returns anything (no idea if thats the name it runs under).

If it is running then just comment out its line in "/etc/inetd.conf" & then do a "kill -HUP PID" where PID is the process id for inetd (ps ax | grep inetd).

Thats how I would do it under debian so I think it should work.

Regards

ed

**pbharris** · 07-08-2002, 10:10 PM

hi black,
i think ity is disabled as far as other machines are concerned - i.e. stuff attempting to finger stuff over one of the interfaces (eth0, ppp0...).

Hi Eddy!!

**gorn** · 07-15-2002, 07:14 PM

telnet localhost 79

if it connects, you are running finger

put a # in front of that line in inetd.conf and killall -HUP inetd and it should be fine.

**neo77777** · 07-16-2002, 04:54 AM

I am not familiar with SuSE, I am a ReHat/Mandrake/Slackware boy, but should it use extended inetd - xinetd? I believe it should, so to see if it is desabled look under
/etc/xinetd.d/finger