why doesn't remote finger work?

[Brian A. Kell]

Thanks for the responses about remote finger...

It turns out that the answer was very simple.  In /usr/etc/inetd.conf,
fingerd was configured to run under userid "guest".  However, we do
not have a "guest" account, so the fingerd program could not execute.
The fix was simple -- change inetd.conf to refer to a valid userid.

The net comes through again!

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Brian Kell             SUNY/Albany Department of Computer Science
brian at isadora.albany.edu                   BK7295 at ALBNYVMS.BITNET
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