From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 9 19:48:27 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA02118 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 9 Feb 1999 19:48:27 -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 TAA02113 for ; Tue, 9 Feb 1999 19:48:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gsutter@orcrist.mediacity.com) Received: (from gsutter@localhost) by orcrist.mediacity.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA10487; Tue, 9 Feb 1999 19:48:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gsutter) Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 19:48:21 -0800 From: Gregory Sutter To: Matthew Hunt Cc: Greg Lehey , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: finger Message-ID: <19990209194821.B10310@orcrist.mediacity.com> References: <19990209190356.A7841@orcrist.mediacity.com> <19990210135059.G71962@freebie.lemis.com> <19990209194213.A89829@wopr.caltech.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95i In-Reply-To: <19990209194213.A89829@wopr.caltech.edu>; from Matthew Hunt on Tue, Feb 09, 1999 at 07:42:13PM -0800 Organization: Zer0 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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