From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 25 2:26:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dns.comrax.com (dns.comrax.com [194.90.246.124]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D92C737B64D for ; Tue, 25 Apr 2000 02:26:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from noor@comrax.com) Received: by dns.comrax.com (Postfix, from userid 100) id 66B571C99B; Tue, 25 Apr 2000 12:26:04 +0300 (IDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dns.comrax.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57C9416E32 for ; Tue, 25 Apr 2000 12:26:04 +0300 (IDT) Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 12:26:04 +0300 (IDT) From: To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: /var/run/utmp Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi all, I am trying to deny normal users the ability to issue 'finger' and 'who' commands from their shell. So I changed modes of /var/run/utmp to 640. But now, when a normal user connects, the shell shows: /var/run/utmp cannot be opened. Please "unset watch". I want this message to be cleared, not shown, while maintaining mode 640 of /var/run/utmp... how is this possible? Thanks, Noor To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message