[eichin@kitten.gen.ma.us: Bug#22816: cfingerd mishandles .nofinger]


Martin Schulze (joey@kuolema.Infodrom.North.DE)
Mon, 25 May 1998 10:47:41 +0200


Fuehlt sich jemand berufen, das zu checken?

cfingerd(8) schreibt:

       CFINGERD also takes into account any security breaches,
       and attempts to close them. With the added bonus of cre-
       ating ".nofinger" files, this is displayed instead of fin-
       ger information, making it possible for users to keep
       themselves relatively anonymous from outside users.

Regards,

        Joey

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Subject: Bug#22816: cfingerd mishandles .nofinger
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package: cfingerd
Version: 1.3.2-9

cfingerd is supposed to *display* the contents of ~user/.nofinger, not
just print nothing at all. With the stock cfingerd.conf, this doesn't
happen, as I think the following demonstrates sufficiently. This used
to work but I don't know how long ago. (I have some users that really
do wish to remain hidden [on another system], I'd *rather* have some
way to indicate "just display the contents of
/etc/cfingerd/nouser_banner.txt for this user" but that's a seperate
issue... it should instead at least work as documented....)

% ls -al .nofinger
-rw-rw-r-- 1 eichin eichin 5 May 25 00:07 .nofinger
% cat --show-all .nofinger
test$
% cfingerd -e eichin
[127.0.0.1 : Username: eichin]
Exit 1
% strace cfingerd -e eichin
[mostly elided...]
open("/home/eichin/.nofinger", O_RDONLY) = 9
close(9) = 0
lstat("/home/eichin/.nofinger", {st_mode=0, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
munmap(0x400b4000, 4096) = 0
munmap(0x400b3000, 4096) = 0
_exit(1) = ?
% finger eichin@swat
[swat.thok.org]
Debian GNU/Linux Copyright (C) 1993-1997 Software in the Public Interest
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Debian GNU/Linux Copyright (c) 1993-1997 Software in the Public Interest

Conffiles:
 /etc/cfingerd/cfingerd.conf b58bf9ea411a1b2d4419af5191e6bf6e
+% md5sum /etc/cfingerd/cfingerd.conf
b58bf9ea411a1b2d4419af5191e6bf6e /etc/cfingerd/cfingerd.conf

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