Re: login can be used to hide from finger under SunOS 4.13u1

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>I recently noticed that running login (no arguments) once logged in, and 
>providing it with your username and password would hide one from finger 
>requests under SunOS 4.13u1.  Has anybody else noticed this, under SunOS, or 
>other unix variants?


Yes.  Simple fix:

	chmod u-s /bin/login

Has never given us any trouble.

Casper

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