special files as .plans?

[MFHorn]

In article <1990Aug28.214615.4265 at ni.umd.edu> louie at sayshell.umd.edu (Louis A. Mamakos) writes:
> Fingerd only runs as `root' on brain-damaged operating systems.

If finger doesn't run as root, ~/.plan has to be world-readable, and
~/ has to be at least world-executable [comments on NFS brain damage
omitted].

Some users may want to be more secure than this.  Others may not know
it needs to be like that and will wonder why nobody can see their plan
or project.  In the past (and probably on many systems today), finger
ran as root because of this.

The problem is that it did (does) not make sure .plan and .project are
regular files (only) and are owned by the user being fingered.

If you've got a broken finger (heh heh), it would be better to fix it
and let it run as root (IMO).

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