Once upon a time, John.Florian@xxxxxxxx <John.Florian@xxxxxxxx> said: > I use finger effectively without a finger server, on a single-user > workstation (in multi-user mode, of course). I believe it's getting the > data via NSS and in my case that means LDAP. That's not too esoteric > IMHO. Yeah, finger is kind of a multi-purpose tool. It can show logged-in users as well as fetch info about any user. Without it, you can use who/w to see logged-in users and "getent passwd <foo>" to fetch user info (and "parse" it yourself). For that matter, except for the network "finger" protocol (which as mentioned, is pretty much dead, except for the ever-popular BOFH server at bofh@xxxxxxxx), it would be fairly easy to replace finger with a shell script that calls the above based on the arguments. Even the network side could be done (with no error checking) in bash with: (echo -e 'bofh\r' 1>&0; cat) <> /dev/tcp/wisc.edu/finger -- Chris Adams <cmadams@xxxxxxxxxx> Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
