Subject: Re: Safe to run fingerd as root?
To: None <netbsd-help@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Jari Kokko <jkokko@cc.hut.fi>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 04/04/1996 16:06:02
In article <m0u4gC2-000D7HC@mail> you write:
>My home directory isn't publicly readable, but I want to have a .plan or
>.project file.  I've changed identd.conf to run fingerd as root.  Are there
>any security problems with this?  I looked over the code, and I can't see
>any potential problems, but then what do I know....  This is under 1.0, but
>I will be upgrading to 1.1 very soon.

How about "chmod og+x $HOME; chmod og+r $HOME/.plan" ???
That is, do you NEED to have read permission to $HOME?

Jari Kokko