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From: maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: special files as .plans?
Keywords: ln
Message-ID: <7391@star.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 27 Aug 90 15:36:15 GMT
References: <1990Aug24.224727.26823@boingo.med.jhu.edu>
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In article <1990Aug24.224727.26823@boingo.med.jhu.edu>,
	dave@boingo.med.jhu.edu (David Heath) writes:
)..., he modified
)the finger program to ignore .plan and .project when they were special
)files.

He forgot to deal with normal files.  The real bug is fingerd running as
root: root can open any (local) file...  (Think about it!)
--
     "What is a rabbit?  A particle that makes special tracks in the snow!"
                                (Paul M. Koloc)