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Re: Is it possible for finger to not show .forward?



On Fri, 24 Mar 2000, David Karlin wrote:

> > > simply "chmod 600 .forward" - at least on solaris this works ...
> > 
> > I don't think that works on Linux; it did not work for me, anyway.
> > 
> > --
> > Andrew
> 
> Tried it and it seems to work okay here.  (slink)

If finger runs as root changing the mode won't help. Use cfingerd and
configure it to show what you want it to.




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