why doesn't remote finger work?

[Paul Hilchey]

In article <364 at karp.albany.edu>, kell at cs.albany.edu (Brian A. Kell) writes:
|> 
|> I've been trying to get our PI (4D/25TG) to respond to remote "finger"
|> requests, but it doesn't work.  

One item to check is that you have a "guest" account on your machine.  inetd
won't be able to start fingerd if there isn't a guest account.

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Paul Hilchey
Computing Services
The University of British Columbia