finger-ocf-account

[Benjamin K Lee]

okay, so i posted this on the web-based message board that is liked from
the support page, but it didn't get any replies, so i'll post again here.
when i type "finger benklee" at the prompt, my .plan file is displayed on
the screen. but when i use the finger-ocf-account for finger from the
web, it says, "No plan". i discovered the same difference when i type
"finger benklee@ocf" from the prompt. so how do i get my .plan file to
get displayed when i use finger-ocf-account?
(finger-ocf-account, the perl script in the cgi-bin folder)
thanks,

ben

[Derek Chan]

Just a note, you'll probably have better luck emailing staff@ocf than
anything else. I don't think the web message board gets many visitors,
especially from staff. Most don't read this newgroup either. as you could
probably guess by the lack of messages posted to it.

However, to answer your question....

death [4] ls -ld ~benklee
drwx------ 21 benklee ocf 2560 Mar 28 17:01 /home/b/be/benklee

Basically, if you run finger, finger is able to read the .plan file in your
home directory because you have permission to.

If you run finger benklee@ocf or run it from the web, neither the finger
program answering the reuest or the webserver can read it. You will have
to allow these permissions by typing

chmod a+x ~ ; chmod a+r ~/.plan

Hope this helps,
- Derek
OCF staff

> ben

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[Benjamin K Lee]

great, it worked!
i had permissions to my .plan set ok, i didn't know i had to change the
permissions of the folder as well!
thanks!

ben