Yet another finger hole
Tony Nardo
trn at aplcomm.jhuapl.edu
Sun Dec 4 09:02:40 AEST 1988
In X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 7, Issue 22, message 8 of 14
natinst!brian at 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.
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