From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Feb 10 12:10:56 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA12981 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 10 Feb 1999 12:10:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from apollo.backplane.com (apollo.backplane.com [209.157.86.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA12976 for ; Wed, 10 Feb 1999 12:10:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon@apollo.backplane.com) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by apollo.backplane.com (8.9.2/8.9.1) id MAA85891; Wed, 10 Feb 1999 12:10:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 12:10:52 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon Message-Id: <199902102010.MAA85891@apollo.backplane.com> To: Matthew Hunt Cc: phoenix@calldei.com, GReg Sutter , Greg Lehey , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Proposal: Ignore .nofinger for root References: <19990209200259.A98301@wopr.caltech.edu> <19990210082606.B58482@holly.dyndns.org> <19990210074658.A10003@wopr.caltech.edu> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG :On Wed, Feb 10, 1999 at 08:26:06AM -0600, Chris Costello wrote: : :> 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message