From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 3 07:20:27 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA03812 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 3 Jan 1999 07:20:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from toad.async.org (hun-al1-20.ix.netcom.com [205.184.6.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA03807 for ; Sun, 3 Jan 1999 07:20:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dono@async.org) Received: from localhost (dono@localhost) by toad.async.org (8.9.1a/8.9.1a) with ESMTP id JAA02173 for ; Sun, 3 Jan 1999 09:19:04 -0600 (CST) Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1999 09:19:03 -0600 (CST) From: Pilo Phlat To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: finger: Permission denied ? 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, I'm having a bit of trouble figuring out why /usr/bin/finger is not working on FreeBSD 3.0-RELEASE. It works okay as root, but as non-root, finger says "Permission denied" when doing a "finger" or "finger valid_user". When I do a "finger nonexistant-user", I get "nonexistant-user: no such user". I checked the permission of /var/run/utmp, /var/log/lastlog, /etc/pwd.db, /etc/passwd and so on. They are world-readable, and its parent directories are accessible. I've removed some users, like 'uucp', 'pop', and 'xten', but see no reason why this should be causing the problem. Let me know what I did wrong here. -d. KeyID 1024/570E72C5 Fingerprint 8A 74 C8 E4 A8 8D 00 FE 01 EF 9F BB 75 38 17 6F To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message