From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 25 13:56:21 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp05.wxs.nl (smtp05.wxs.nl [195.121.6.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7920014DFE for ; Thu, 25 Feb 1999 13:56:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from asmodai@wxs.nl) Received: from daemon.ninth-circle.org ([195.121.56.51]) by smtp05.wxs.nl (Netscape Messaging Server 3.61) with ESMTP id AAA32B1; Wed, 24 Feb 1999 17:49:49 +0100 Received: from daemon.ninth-circle.org (abaddon@daemon.ninth-circle.org [192.168.0.1]) by daemon.ninth-circle.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA01304; Wed, 24 Feb 1999 17:49:18 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from asmodai@wxs.nl) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 17:49:18 +0100 (CET) Organization: Ninth Circle Enterprises From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai To: sporkl@ix.netcom.com Subject: Re: finger information changes. Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Johnny Matthews Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 *BSD: Powered by Knowledge & Know-how To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message