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Date:      Wed, 24 Feb 1999 17:49:18 +0100 (CET)
From:      Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl>
To:        sporkl@ix.netcom.com
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Johnny Matthews <jmatthew@greenville.edu>
Subject:   Re: finger information changes.
Message-ID:  <XFMail.990224174918.asmodai@wxs.nl>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9902231814440.315-100000@nyc-ny78-59.ix.netcom.com>

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On 23-Feb-99 Spike wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Feb 1999, Johnny Matthews wrote:
> 
>> How can I restrict my users from changing their finger information?
> 
> "chmod" chfn, chsh, ~/.plan, and ~/.project to permissions that the users
> can't write. 

This will not work, try it:

$ chmod 000 .plan

$ ls -asl .plan

$ chmod 644 .plan

$ ls -asl .plan

chown'ing would be better, if it will not interfere with the operation of
finger though.

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asmodai(at)wxs.nl        The idea does not replace the work...
Network/Security Specialist      <http://home.wxs.nl/~asmodai>;
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