From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 9 19:21:17 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA28693 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 9 Feb 1999 19:21:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA28653 for ; Tue, 9 Feb 1999 19:21:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id NAA06756; Wed, 10 Feb 1999 13:51:01 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.2/8.9.0) id NAA72614; Wed, 10 Feb 1999 13:51:00 +1030 (CST) Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 13:50:59 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Gregory Sutter Cc: Spike , Keith Anderson , Dan Langille , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: finger Message-ID: <19990210135059.G71962@freebie.lemis.com> References: <19990209190356.A7841@orcrist.mediacity.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i In-Reply-To: <19990209190356.A7841@orcrist.mediacity.com>; from Gregory Sutter on Tue, Feb 09, 1999 at 07:03:56PM -0800 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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? Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message