Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1999 09:19:03 -0600 (CST) From: Pilo Phlat <dono@async.org> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: finger: Permission denied ? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9901030912310.2163-100000@toad.async.org>
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Hi, I'm having a bit of trouble figuring out why /usr/bin/finger is not working on FreeBSD 3.0-RELEASE. It works okay as root, but as non-root, finger says "Permission denied" when doing a "finger" or "finger valid_user". When I do a "finger nonexistant-user", I get "nonexistant-user: no such user". I checked the permission of /var/run/utmp, /var/log/lastlog, /etc/pwd.db, /etc/passwd and so on. They are world-readable, and its parent directories are accessible. I've removed some users, like 'uucp', 'pop', and 'xten', but see no reason why this should be causing the problem. Let me know what I did wrong here. -d. KeyID 1024/570E72C5 Fingerprint 8A 74 C8 E4 A8 8D 00 FE 01 EF 9F BB 75 38 17 6F To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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