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Fingerd - A safer replacement for any 'fingerd'

This is a much updated version of Mike Shanzer's fingerd-1.3. It is almost completely rewritten, well-debugged (i.e., more secure), and quite configurable. It supports ACLs, a message-of-the-day file, the ability to run programs for given user-IDs, and a full set of command-line options that make it mostly compatible with modern BSD versions. It is portable, uses GNU Autoconf and GNU Automake for builds, and it comes with a ready-to-use BSD makefile too.

Obtaining

Web pagehttp://www.weird.com/~woods/projects/fingerd.html
Source tarballftp://ftp.weird.com/pub/local/fingerd.tar.gz
Latest versionftp://ftp.weird.com/pub/local/fingerd.tar.gz
Version 1.4 (stable) released on 2000-12-02
Licensed under a simple permissive license (no non-warranty claus.
This is not a GNU package.

Documentation
User manpage available in HTML format from http://www.weird.com/~woods/projects/fingerd.8.html
Support contacts

Help List<woods-fingerd@weird.com>
Developer List<woods-fingerd@weird.com>
Bug List<woods-fingerd@weird.com>

Project contacts

Maintainers
Developers

Related information

Interfacesdaemon
Source languagesC
Build prerequisitesGNU autoconf, GNU automake
Related programsFinger

Entry information

License verified byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org> on 2000-12-04
Entry compiled byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org>

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