Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2002 12:12:35 +0100 From: "Megias Sanchez, Jose Manuel" <JMegias@caja-granada.es> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Help with finger permission denied Message-ID: <1A4723CDE42AD611B61200A0C9AA5F3729BB85@correoex.caja-granada.es>
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Hello, the command finger fails with all entries in /etc/passwd. Here is the information: 1.- Command: finger jose 2.- Output of the command: finger: Permission denied 3.- Permissions on the finger binary: -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel - 18832 Feb 20 07:51 /usr/bin/finger 4.- Permissions on the jose directory: drwxr-xr-x 2 jose jose 512 Oct 29 13:30 /home/jose 5.- Execution of the command: The command is executed by root user. 6.- FreeBSD version: 4.5 stable 7.- In another PC running the same FreeBSD version the command is running ok: tijeras# finger jose Login: jmg Name: Jose Martinez Garcia Directory: /home/jmg Shell: /bin/sh Last login Mon Jan 14 13:08 (CET) on ttyp2 from jmg Mail last read Fri Mar 1 11:42 2002 (CET) No Plan. Login: jose Name: Jose Manuel Megias Sanchez Directory: /home/jose Shell: /bin/sh Never logged in. No Mail. No Plan. I'm hoping your news, greetings. be useful. > mulhacen# finger daemon > finger: Permission denied > > and the daemon entry exists in /etc/passwd. In another system > running the same FreeBSD version the command is running ok but no in this > one. Where is the problem? Ok, where's the output of "which finger"? What are the permissions on the finger binary, and on the ~daemon directory? <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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