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> >Several others have made this suggestion, but wouldn't it really only
> >need to be readable by the uid of fingerd? The file ~/.plan isn't
> >being read by some other regular user on the system, its being read by
> >a daemon and shoved out port 79......
Yes, the directory only needs to be executable by the fingerd process.
But, unless you're a member of the same group the daemon runs as, you'll
be forced to make the directory executable by everyone.
> It depends on the setup -- If I'm not mistaken, fingerd is run as
> nobody/nogroup quite a bit, is it not? I know that that's commonly done
> for named, anyway...
It's not common, but it should be.
-mct
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