On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 10:55:29AM -0500, Dean Fox wrote:
I am contemplating to remove/disable finger or port 79 from some
workstations and/or servers. Is there any negative impact for doing it?
Any advice is much appreciated.
Actualy, considering that your system probably have a standard
The question is to you, do you use it? Finger used to be a good tool, today it leads
to a security concern. If you don't use it, as with any service running, turn it off.
mrcorp
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From: Dean Fox [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2002 10:55 AM
No impact. A very wise decision. It's one of the first things I do after
setting up a new machine.
-Matt
On Wednesday 20 February 2002 07:55, Dean Fox wrote:
I am contemplating to remove/disable finger or port 79 from some
workstations and/or servers. Is there any negative impact for
It's not an *important* service and IMO only provides attackers with info
for brute force attacks (from gathered usernames) and social engineering
attacks (from email addresses and user info).
-scm
On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, Dean Fox wrote:
I am contemplating to remove/disable finger or port 79
My personal opinion is that you shouldn`t run finger at all
Baba Bogdan
Sys Admin
CDS NETWORK, Corpus Christi, TX, USA
CAD Data Systems, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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