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From: hilchey@ucs.ubc.ca (Paul Hilchey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: why doesn't remote finger work?
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Date: 17 Jun 91 19:19:30 GMT
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In article <364@karp.albany.edu>, kell@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