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Operating Systems Solaris Not able to disable finger & telnet command in Solaris 8 Post 303040572 by amity on Friday 1st of November 2019 01:45:28 AM

11-01-2019

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Not able to disable finger & telnet command in Solaris 8

Hi
I need to disable finger & telnet command in solaris 8

I have put the # infront of finger and telnet line in /etc/inetd.conf file. Further I have run the below command

Code:

kill -1 <process id of inetd >

But when I am running finger command it is till giving information for remote machine

--- Post updated at 10:56 AM ---

Just to add that it is showing details of user through which I am login to this server along with details of server thorugh which I login to this server.

For example:

If I currently login to host1 (Solaris 10) then login to host2 ( Solaris 8 where I am facing issue) through host1 then in finger command on host2, I am getting only local user detail through which I login to host2 along with host details

--- Post updated at 11:15 AM ---

As per my understanding we don't even need to run above kill command as finger command will only run when it is invoked through the command line as it happened when command got invoked due to that inetd command will reread the /etc/inetd.conf file and run the finger daemon and if I put the # in front of finger line in /etc/inetd.conf then it should not be invoked. But it is getting invoked. Further same thing is happring in Solaris 9 as well.

Please correct me if I am wrong

I need to disable finger command due to security reason.

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safe_finger

SAFE_FINGER(8)						     Linux Programmer's Manual						    SAFE_FINGER(8)

NAME

       safe_finger - finger client wrapper that protects against nasty stuff from finger servers

SYNOPSIS

       safe_finger [finger_options]

DESCRIPTION

       The  safe_finger  command  protects  against nasty stuff from finger servers. Use this program for automatic reverse finger probes from the
       tcp_wrapper (tcpd) , not the raw finger command. The safe_finger command makes sure that the finger client is not run with root privileges.
       It  also  runs  the finger client with a defined PATH environment.  safe_finger will also protect you from problems caused by the output of
       some finger servers. The problem: some programs may react to stuff in the first column. Other programs may get upset by thrash anywhere	on
       a  line.  File  systems may fill up as the finger server keeps sending data. Text editors may bomb out on extremely long lines.	The finger
       server may take forever because it is somehow wedged.  safe_finger takes care of all this badness.

SEE ALSO

       hosts_access(5), hosts_options(5), tcpd(8)

AUTHOR

       Wietse Venema, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands.

Linux								  21th June 1997						    SAFE_FINGER(8)

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