From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Aug 8 23:55:41 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail.chem.msu.ru (mail.chem.msu.ru [195.208.208.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66D6137B401; Wed, 8 Aug 2001 23:55:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from yar@comp.chem.msu.su) Received: from comp.chem.msu.su ([158.250.32.97]) by mail.chem.msu.ru with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2650.21) id NHPRWS08; Thu, 9 Aug 2001 10:47:07 +0400 Received: (from yar@localhost) by comp.chem.msu.su (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f796t2c93954; Thu, 9 Aug 2001 10:55:02 +0400 (MSD) (envelope-from yar) Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2001 10:55:02 +0400 From: Yar Tikhiy To: Warner Losh Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: finger/fingerd & home directory permissions Message-ID: <20010809105502.A92333@comp.chem.msu.su> References: <20010809020831.B44660@comp.chem.msu.su> <200108090629.f796TX127642@harmony.village.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200108090629.f796TX127642@harmony.village.org>; from imp@harmony.village.org on Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 12:29:33AM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 12:29:33AM -0600, Warner Losh wrote: > In message <20010809020831.B44660@comp.chem.msu.su> Yar Tikhiy writes: > : The issue I'd like to submit to discussion is what way to choose: > : a) Add a command-line option to finger(1) and fingerd(8) telling > : them not to reveal user information if the user's homedir is > : protected. > : b) Similar to a), but hide such users by default. > : c) Don't bother at all :-) > > d) $HOME/.nofinger It's just an equivalent of c) ;-) The top part of my message, which you skipped, I was speaking of the case when finger(1) couldn't access the home directory of a user and see the ".nofinger" file because of restrictive permission bits set on the directory. -- Yar To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message