Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!nstn.ns.ca!news.cs.indiana.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!uxa.cso.uiuc.edu!bc From: bc@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Ben Cox) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: A question about finger Message-ID: <1991May31.234051.25754@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: 31 May 91 23:40:51 GMT References: Sender: usenet@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (News) Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Lines: 15 jfsenior@unix1.tcd.ie (Semolina Pilchard) writes: >I was just wondering why it is that when I chmod my .plan to 600, other people >can still read it by fingering me, finger isn't setuid or anything.. and >the source doesn't seem to have any strange stuff in it. At our site, others can't finger someone whose .plan is mode 600. The reason is that /etc/inetd.conf (on 4.3 systems) determines who fingerd is run as. On our system, it's "nobody". On other systems, it might be "root". (On non-4.3 systems, fingerd probably runs all the time, as root.) -- Ben Cox bc@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu