From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 5 15:11:39 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from goa.stepnet.com (goa.stepnet.com [206.14.120.102]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8A5715280 for ; Fri, 5 Mar 1999 15:11:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ping@stepnet.com) Received: (from ping@localhost) by goa.stepnet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA05614; Fri, 5 Mar 1999 15:11:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ping) From: Ping Mai Message-Id: <199903052311.PAA05614@goa.stepnet.com> Subject: Re: finger problem In-Reply-To: <199903051633.LAA13835@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> from "Crist J. Clark" at "Mar 5, 1999 11:33:28 am" To: cjclark@home.com Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1999 15:11:10 -0800 (PST) Cc: ping@stepnet.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG No they don't have a '.nofinger' file. I know they exist because they are in /etc/passwd and they are logging on all the time. > Ping Mai wrote, > > How come I can finger some local users but not others? > > > > I am having this problem on 2.2.8 and 2.2.7. > > Do these users have a '.nofinger' file in their home directory? You > need to provide more details for better help. How is finger failing? > How do you know those users really do exist? > -- > Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com > ------------------------------------------------------------ Ping Mai ping@stepnet.com ------------------------------------------------------------ Work keeps away three great evils: boredom, vice, and need. - Voltaire To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message