Path: 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 In X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 7, Issue 22, message 8 of 14 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)