Re: Is it possible for finger to not show .forward?
On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 06:07:28PM -0000, Pollywog wrote:
>
> On 21-Mar-2000 George Bonser wrote:
> > On Tue, 21 Mar 2000, David Karlin wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> Obviously, finger could be disabled, but I'd like to keep it
> >> running on the internal network.
> >>
> >> Is there a way to get finger to not show .forward?
> >>
> >
> > Try using a different finger daemon. There are a lot of them and they
> > allow different configuration options.
>
> I removed my finger daemon, but if I finger a user as root, I can read their
> .forward file. I don't understand how that happens with no daemon.
/usr/bin/finger does not use finger daemon on the localhost. and root
can read all files so root will always be able to see your .forward.
try finger as another user though and you won't see it.
as for fingerd i see no reason it should be run as anything other then
nobody, if at all.
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Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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