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 -- Gregory S. Sutter Bureaucrats cut red tape -- lengthwise. 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
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