Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 12:10:52 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> To: Matthew Hunt <mph@pobox.com> Cc: phoenix@calldei.com, GReg Sutter <gsutter@pobox.com>, Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Proposal: Ignore .nofinger for root Message-ID: <199902102010.MAA85891@apollo.backplane.com> References: <19990209200259.A98301@wopr.caltech.edu> <19990210082606.B58482@holly.dyndns.org> <19990210074658.A10003@wopr.caltech.edu>
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:On Wed, Feb 10, 1999 at 08:26:06AM -0600, Chris Costello wrote:
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:> Yes. Why?
:
:Well, I thought the rationale was trivial: To provide accurate
:information to the superuser.
:
:On further reflection, though, that the patch is poor design,
:although the argument is more subtle than your argument of "why?"
:...
I dunno. I never run finger as the superuser. Too dangerous.
-Matt
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