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tryfrom(1)							    tryfrom(1)

NAME
       tryfrom, sffinger - utility programs for TCP Wrappers

SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
   tryfrom
       This  program identifies the end-point details related to a connection.
       This program must be called via a remote shell command as shown	below.
       It  is  used  to	 find out if the hostname and the address are properly
       recognized, and also if the username lookup works properly.

       prints the following output when it is invoked:

       The information related to the client describes	how  the  remote  host
       recognizes  the	client	in  terms of address, name and user name.  The
       information related to the server gives the remote host's details.

       See hosts_access(5) manual page for more information on expressions.

   sffinger
       This is a wrapper program to the finger(1) client which	offers	better
       protection  against  the	 possible  damage from data sent by the remote
       server.	This command accepts all the options supported by finger(1).

       It is recommended to use this program in the implementation of traps in
       the  access  control  language  of and See hosts_access(5) man page for
       more information on setting traps.

       This program restricts each line length to 128 bytes and total response
       to  a  maximum of 100000 bytes.	uses 60 seconds time-out value in get‐
       ting the response from the remote host's server.

AUTHOR
       Wietse Venema (wietse@wzv.win.tue.nl),
       Department of Mathematics and Computing Science,
       Eindhoven University of Technology
       Den Dolech 2, P.O. Box 513,
       5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands

SEE ALSO
       finger(1), tcpd(1M), hosts_access(5).

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