>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.

While I am not aware of any security problems with NetBSD 1.0's finger
daemon, running anything that does not _HAVE_ to be root as root is a
Very Bad Idea.  You do not have to make your home directory publically
readable for the normal finger daemon to read your finger files -- just
make it world executable (chmod 711 ~).  This will allow it to find the
publically readable finger files, but prevents others from taking
directory listings.

>Are there any finger programs that implement logging?  I was going to add
>it, but if it's allready out there, why bother...

I'm pretty sure the GNU finger daemon provides logging along with all of its
other "features".

Max