From owner-freebsd-isp Fri Mar 5 21:23:22 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from rheingold.navi.net (pdx-pm-p009.navi.net [209.188.52.59]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8780214D95 for ; Fri, 5 Mar 1999 21:22:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wcooley@nakedape.navi.net) Received: from localhost (wcooley@localhost) by rheingold.navi.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id VAA12708; Fri, 5 Mar 1999 21:20:36 -0800 Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1999 21:20:31 -0800 (PST) From: International Man of Mystery X-Sender: wcooley@rheingold.navi.net To: Ping Mai Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: finger In-Reply-To: <199903052343.PAA05802@goa.stepnet.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 5 Mar 1999, Ping Mai wrote: > Does anyone konw why finger commands running locally works for some > users but not others (finger : ... : no such user) ? I am seeing this > on a 2.2.7 and 2.2.8 release systems. > > I didn't get a good answer from -questions so i am trying -isp. Are you sure your password and shadow files are correct? Sometimes an accidental broken line or duplicate username can really do odd things. Wil -- W. Reilly Cooley Naked Ape Consulting wcooley@nakedape.navi.net http://nakedape.navi.net Internet Meta-Resources: http://nakedape.navi.net/meta-res/ "All the Net you need to be a geek." Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking. -- H.L. Mencken, "A Mencken Chrestomathy" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message