> I believe it could be dangeours in some cases, but people from
> Sun says that they won't repair the in.fingerd because:
Well finger is enabled by default and it runs as nobody... so you can't
link to /etc/shadow...
finger stream tcp6 nowait nobody /usr/sbin/in.fingerd in.fingerd
I think finger even still bounces.. @[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> "There are may be legitimate reasons for finger to follow symlinks. If
> finger is considered a security issue, it can be disabled. (..)"
I think it's an issue of, what is the point of fixing it?
>
> What do you think ?
I won't sleep at night over this one.
Matt
