Re: finger

[Steve Borho <steve borho myip org>]

On Tue, Aug 31, 1999 at 04:56:53PM -0400, erik wrote:
> I have a quick question.  i have finger enabled on my machine.  i only
> have a few account for I am the only user on the machine.  i can
> finger all of the users and provided that they have a .plan and/or a
> .project file i can see them with one exception - root.  I have placed
> both a .project and a .plan filee in root home directory, but i dont
> see the plan or the project.  why does it do this?

ix% echo "my project" > .project
ix% echo "My plan" > .plan
ix% finger steve
Login: steve                            Name: 
Directory: /home/steve                  Shell: /bin/zsh
On since Tue Aug 17 12:09 (CDT) on tty1   14 days 6 hours idle
Last login Sat Aug 28 13:12 (CDT) on 0 from maxwell
No mail.
Project:
my project
Plan:
My plan
ix% ls -l .project .plan 
-rw-r--r--   1 steve    engineer        8 Aug 31 19:02 .plan
-rw-r--r--   1 steve    engineer       11 Aug 31 18:41 .project
ix% 

Are your .plan and .project files readable by other and is your home
directory world readable and world executable?

-- 
Steve Borho