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From: 88p8337@usage.csd.unsw.oz.au (Bian Hu)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: A question about finger
Message-ID: <1726@usage.csd.unsw.oz.au>
Date: 5 Jun 91 07:40:47 GMT
Reply-To: 88p8337@usage.csd.unsw.OZ.AU.unsw.oz (Bian Hu)
Organization: University of New South Wales
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In article <1991May31.234051.25754@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu| bc@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Ben Cox) writes:
|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.)
|
|--
    I have the same problem as Semolina has. As following Ben's idea,
I looked into the /etc/inetd.conf, but i found it _is_ "nobody" as well. 
    If I can't protect me being fingered,is there a way to modify some
items listed by finger such as "home phone", etc.

  -B.H.-

TIA