From: snow <snow@smoke.suba.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 1997 06:26:10 -0800 (PST)
To: Toto <toto@sk.sympatico.ca>
Subject: Re: fingerd
Message-ID: <199701231426.GAA15678@toad.com>
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> > Couple of things you can do:
> >     2.  Install a more secure "fingerd" such that it only
> >         allows "finger `userid@node.domain`" instead of
> >         "finger `@node.domain`".
> > While I've seen #2 in action, I don't know where to go to snarf it.  I just
> > use #1.
>   Anyone know where to 'snarf it'?

    cfingerd can be gotten from:

    ftp.bitgate.com/pub/cfingerd/pub/cfingerd
 -or-
    sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/Network/finger

    There are a couple of other fingerd's in the sunsite directory. Cfinger
seemed to be the best last time I was looking for a fingerd.