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Article #9394Re: Yet another finger hole
From: Tony Nardo
Date: Sat, 03 Dec 1988 23:02
Date: Sat, 03 Dec 1988 23:02
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natinst!brian@cs.utexas.edu (Brian H. Powell) writes:
>...
>This will cause in.fingerd to run as nobody instead of root....
There's a slight problem with this, as some of you may have discovered by
now. When I used "nobody" in inetd.conf, cron sent root a mail message
every day at 00:15 complaining about a daemon having a negative user ID.
Other than that, "nobody" works just fine.
I set up user "news" as my safe user name in inetd.conf, and "cron"
stopped complaining.
I really should have tried "chown nobody in.fingerd ; chmod 6755
in.fingerd" on SunOS 4.0 first. From the mail I've received, it sounds
like that's the most universally accepted solution.
ARPA, BITNET: trn@aplcomm.jhuapl.edu (when our link is fixed)
UUCP: {backbone!}mimsy!aplcomm!trn (stopgap measure)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!ukma!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!rice!sun-spots-request From: trn@aplcomm.jhuapl.edu (Tony Nardo) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun Subject: Re: Yet another finger hole Message-ID: <8811231254.AA04494@warper.jhuapl.edu> Date: 3 Dec 88 23:02:40 GMT References: <8811112032.AA22990@natinst.uucp> Sender: usenet@rice.edu Organization: Rice University, Houston, Texas Lines: 19 Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu Original-Date: Wed, 23 Nov 88 07:54:58 EST X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 7, Issue 36, message 3 of 12