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From: Jason Wells <jcwells@u.washington.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Finger reports home directories incorrectly
Date: Tue, 07 Jan 1997 17:21:07 -0800
Organization: (soon to be) Highperformance.net
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I am currently in the process of moving a webserver that I run under
windoze to my FreeBSD partition so that I may run the webserver under
FreeBSD. Filenames and directory names have been selected to provide a
continous file structure to the end-user.
I adduser-ed three users into the default directory of "/usr/home". I
then moved these directories to the directory "/web/*". "/web" being the
location that I will run my webserver from. After moving these three
directories I edited "/etc/master.passwd" to reflect the changes in the
home directories of the users.
I then fingered all three users and learned that finger reports the home
directories to be "/usr/home/username" instead of "/web/username". DRAT!
So I reviewed the source code to try and find the problem. Comments in
the source tell me that finger pulls its data from "/etc/passwd".
Thinking this to be an easy fix I just copied "/etc/master.passwd" into
"/etc/passwd". This also did not work. Finger still reports the home
directories incorrectly.
The basic C programming class that I have taken does not lend me enough
confidence to think that I can code the source to finger better than the
original author.
How do I get finger to report home directories correctly? Perhaps this
is a minor problem but I prefer to get this right. I suspect a
fastidious approach to setting up FreeBSD will save me grief down the
road.
--
Thank you,
Wannabe Sysadmin
Jason Wells
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