[NTLUG:Discuss] finger

Steve Baker sjbaker1 at airmail.net
Mon Feb 7 15:13:14 CST 2000


TJ Bell wrote:
> 
> I've got a weird one for yout.  In my home directory I have made a file
> '.plan' and put some relevant text in it.  While logged in as myself, I
> can do `finger tj` and it shows all of the info that it should.  If I
> log in as another user, it gives all the info except it says "No plan."
> If, as logged in as myself, I type `finger tj at localhost` or `finger
> tj at tjbell.dhs.org` or `finger tj at 24.4.38.60` I get everything except "No
> plan."  The ONLY way it will display my .plan file is if I'm logged in
> as myself AND I just do `finger tj`.
> 
> Any ideas??  The .plan permissions are 644 so other can read it but of
> course my home directory has the perms cut off...but that shouldn't
> matter to finger should it??

Just how shut off are your directory permissions?  Some of them are
important.

I found that if I disable 'x' (execute/search) permissions on my
home directory then I get the behaviour you describe, but with 'x'
allowed and 'r' (read) disabled, I can still do a remote finger.

It seems that finger needs search permission.

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