Berkeley CSUA MOTD:Entry 15326
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 1/30   Is there a way to prevent someone, or if it's easier an entire
        domain, from seeing your finger information if you're logged in or
        not?
        \_ ask root to disable fingerd.  its a stupid 'service' anyway.
        \_ What's the account that you want to exclude from?
        \_ from the finger manpage --
     If the file ``.nofinger'' exists in the user's home directory, finger be-
     haves as if the user in question does not exist.
        \_ I meant just a specific user, not blocking out everyone.
                \_ No, because you have no way of knowing where the finger
                   really comes from (many versions of finger allow
                   'forwarding' connections, i.e. 'finger joe@csua@uclink'
                   looks like it's coming from uclink, not the real user).
                   \_ This behavior is deprecated and may gradually start
                      to go away, though.  Some fancy fingerds like cfingerd
                      do what the original person asked for... and I think
                      GNU fingerd lets users change the output of fingering
                      their accounts.
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