On Tue, Apr 28, 2026 at 06:50:30PM +0000, ethan@tilde.team wrote:
Hello, It seems like finger recognized .project and .plan files for other users on tilde.team, but not me. Whenever I use finger from outside this session, it doesn't seem to recognize my plan or project files, but when I simply type 'finger ethan' when logged in via ssh, everything works. I'm not sure why this is. If anyone knows why this is happening, please let me know.
The problem is that your home directory does not have any execute bits set:
thinknix@tilde:~$ ls -ld /home/ethan drw-r--r-- 33 ethan team 4096 Apr 28 17:44 /home/ethan
You need at least 711 perms for others to be able to read files inside your home directory (711 is a bit more secure than 755, but either will work). For directories, the execute bit is also called the search bit, since it is required to list the contents of a directory.
-thinknix