Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 19:29:52 -0800 From: Gregory Sutter <gsutter@pobox.com> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: Spike <spork@startrekmail.com>, Keith Anderson <keith@apcs.com.au>, Dan Langille <junkmale@xtra.co.nz>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: finger Message-ID: <19990209192952.B7841@orcrist.mediacity.com> In-Reply-To: <19990210135059.G71962@freebie.lemis.com>; from Greg Lehey on Wed, Feb 10, 1999 at 01:50:59PM %2B1030 References: <XFMail.990210113213.keith@apcs.com.au> <Pine.BSF.4.05.9902092011100.388-100000@nyc-ny69-14.ix.netcom.com> <19990209190356.A7841@orcrist.mediacity.com> <19990210135059.G71962@freebie.lemis.com>
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On Wed, Feb 10, 1999 at 01:50:59PM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Tuesday, 9 February 1999 at 19:03:56 -0800, Gregory Sutter wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 09, 1999 at 08:11:47PM -0500, Spike wrote: > >> > >> Those users who do not wish to be fingerable can create a file ".nofinger" > >> in their home directory. This will prevent finger from givin out their > >> information. > > > > Does anyone else think that a finger by root should ignore all > > .nofinger files? > > How can you know it's a finger from root? Urg. Local finger not treated differently than remote finger. I have now RTFM 'fingerd'. I'll just write a script that does what I want. Greg -- Gregory S. Sutter Information wants to be free. mailto:gsutter@pobox.com http://www.pobox.com/~gsutter/ PGP DSS public key 0x40AE3052 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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