Unanimous answer was "you cannot do it" . Few suggested to disable fingerd . Well this was not something I was looking for. Thanks to the following gurus . ed.rolison@itc.alstom.com svm@lucent.com McCaffityR@epg.lewis.army.mil canderson1@worldbank.org tonytran@contour.com I had asked this question as I was not able to do "finger one_of_myuser" . The output suggests as if there is no user with this ID, which is not true. I thought he had done something to hide from finger command . Well I have confirmed from him and he hasn't done anything . Digging deeper I got to know there were few more user IDs which I cannot "finger" . The only thing common between these IDs is if I do "ypcat -k passwd|grep ^x" (Replace x with any of the alphabets) , these non-fingerable IDs will be last 4 or 5 in the list . Is my password file corrupt ? .Can somebody shed some light on this? In nis environment which file will finger refer to for "In real Life" information ? How does "ypcat -k passwd " sort its output ? It is not as it appears in passwd database ,not alphabetical, and not by uid . Thanks Surender Original posting > Hello everybody > > How can I stop somebody seeing my information when they do "finger > my_login_id" ? I am not administrator so I cant disable the service > itself . I will summarize. > > thanks > Surender > _______________________________________________ > sunmanagers mailing list > sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org > http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagers _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Mon Mar 11 05:28:13 2002
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