Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!spool.mu.edu!caen!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!crdgw1!cs.albany.edu!babbage.albany.edu!kell From: kell@cs.albany.edu (Brian A. Kell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi Subject: Re: why doesn't remote finger work? Message-ID: Date: 17 Jun 91 19:06:54 GMT References: <364@karp.albany.edu> Sender: kell@cs.albany.edu Organization: Computer Science Department, SUNY at Albany, Albany, NY 12222 Lines: 13 In-reply-to: kell@cs.albany.edu's message of 17 Jun 91 15:41:53 GMT 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! ----------------------------------------------------------------- Brian Kell SUNY/Albany Department of Computer Science brian@isadora.albany.edu BK7295@ALBNYVMS.BITNET -----------------------------------------------------------------