Package: fingerd
Version: 0.17-17
Severity: normal
Tags: ipv6
Dear Maintainer,
There are multiple patches in debian finger to make it work on ipv6.
Unfortunately, if I install fingerd, it's not listening on ipv6, only on ipv4.
This is because the configuration in /etc/inetd.conf is incorrect;
if I change 'tcp' to 'tcp6' on this line:
fingerentry="finger stream tcp nowait nobody /usr/sbin/tcpd
/usr/sbin/in.fingerd"
fingerentry="finger stream tcp6 nowait nobody /usr/sbin/tcpd
/usr/sbin/in.fingerd"
everything works as expected, fingerd is now listening on both ipv4 and
ipv6.
Please see this patch:
diff --git i/debian/fingerd.postinst w/debian/fingerd.postinst
index afe09b7..1b95a58 100644
--- i/debian/fingerd.postinst
+++ w/debian/fingerd.postinst
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ configure)
if [ -n "$2" ]; then
enable_if_alone
else
- fingerentry="finger stream tcp nowait nobody
/usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/in.fingerd"
+ fingerentry="finger stream tcp6 nowait nobody
/usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/in.fingerd"
if grep -q ^finger /etc/inetd.conf; then
update-inetd --group INFO --add "#$fingerentry"
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 13.2
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500,
'oldstable-updates'), (500, 'oldstable-security'), (500, 'stable'), (500,
'oldstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 6.12.57+deb13-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_US:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages fingerd depends on:
ii libc6 2.41-12
ii netbase 6.5
ii update-inetd 4.53
fingerd recommends no packages.
Versions of packages fingerd suggests:
ii finger 0.17-17
-- no debconf information
