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Date:      Tue, 9 Feb 1999 19:48:21 -0800
From:      Gregory Sutter <gsutter@pobox.com>
To:        Matthew Hunt <mph@pobox.com>
Cc:        Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: finger
Message-ID:  <19990209194821.B10310@orcrist.mediacity.com>
In-Reply-To: <19990209194213.A89829@wopr.caltech.edu>; from Matthew Hunt on Tue, Feb 09, 1999 at 07:42:13PM -0800
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> <19990209194213.A89829@wopr.caltech.edu>

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On Tue, Feb 09, 1999 at 07:42:13PM -0800, Matthew Hunt wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 10, 1999 at 01:50:59PM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote:
> 
> > How can you know it's a finger from root?
> 
> Check the EUID in hide() in src/usr.bin/finger/util.c; in inetd.conf,
> run fingerd as nobody (which is the default).

Or like that.  Maybe I should have tried RTFCode instead.  Thanks, Matt!

Greg
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