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From: casy@netcom.com
Subject: finger/permission denied
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Date: Wed, 14 Jun 1995 08:31:42 GMT
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Hi!

Does anyone have any idea why someone would get permission  denied in 
FreeBSD ver 2.0 when he executes finger under any user id except root. 
(finger works fine under root uid.)

casy