Martin Schulze (joey@kuolema.Infodrom.North.DE)
Sun, 31 May 1998 21:59:26 +0200
On Sun, May 31, 1998 at 04:29:21PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote:
> Hann jemand Peter antworten?
>
> Gruesse,
>
> Joey
>
> ----- Forwarded message from Peter Paluch <peterp@frcatel.utc.sk> -----
> Hello Martin,
> =============
>
> since I've used cfingerd as my finger daemon I had problems with
> determining the user's setting of his "mesg". Cfingerd always says
> (independently from the real setting) that the user has his messages
> disabled even when they are enabled.
>
> I performed some primitive checks :). I noticed that when I set the
> permissions for my tty file so that the group and other users were
> allowed to write in it (so something like mode 622) then the cfingerd
> reported (in fact correctly ;-) that I have messages allowed. So it
> seems that cfingerd doesn't complain about disabled messages then and
> only then if the group and others may write into specific tty file. But
> as far as I know this is wrong, because issuing "mesg y" allows write
> access for group only (mode 620)!
>
> ----- End forwarded message -----
This was a bug, it's fixed now. There's a new define HAVE_TTY_GROUP
which is created through Configure.
Regards,
Joey
-- / Martin Schulze * joey@infodrom.north.de * 26129 Oldenburg / / http://home.pages.de/~joey/ / Unix is user friendly ... It's just picky about it's friends /
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