Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 17:49:18 +0100 (CET) From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl> To: sporkl@ix.netcom.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Johnny Matthews <jmatthew@greenville.edu> Subject: Re: finger information changes. Message-ID: <XFMail.990224174918.asmodai@wxs.nl> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9902231814440.315-100000@nyc-ny78-59.ix.netcom.com>
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On 23-Feb-99 Spike wrote: > On Tue, 23 Feb 1999, Johnny Matthews wrote: > >> How can I restrict my users from changing their finger information? > > "chmod" chfn, chsh, ~/.plan, and ~/.project to permissions that the users > can't write. This will not work, try it: $ chmod 000 .plan $ ls -asl .plan $ chmod 644 .plan $ ls -asl .plan chown'ing would be better, if it will not interfere with the operation of finger though. --- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven http://www.freebsdzine.org>; asmodai(at)wxs.nl The idea does not replace the work... Network/Security Specialist <http://home.wxs.nl/~asmodai>; *BSD: Powered by Knowledge & Know-how <http://www.freebsd.org>; To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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