From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 9 19:30:40 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA29672 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 9 Feb 1999 19:30:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from orcrist.mediacity.com (orcrist.mediacity.com [208.138.36.146]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA29661 for ; Tue, 9 Feb 1999 19:30:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gsutter@orcrist.mediacity.com) Received: (from gsutter@localhost) by orcrist.mediacity.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA10189; Tue, 9 Feb 1999 19:29:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gsutter) Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 19:29:52 -0800 From: Gregory Sutter To: Greg Lehey Cc: Spike , Keith Anderson , Dan Langille , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: finger Message-ID: <19990209192952.B7841@orcrist.mediacity.com> References: <19990209190356.A7841@orcrist.mediacity.com> <19990210135059.G71962@freebie.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95i In-Reply-To: <19990210135059.G71962@freebie.lemis.com>; from Greg Lehey on Wed, Feb 10, 1999 at 01:50:59PM +1030 Organization: Zer0 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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