The service fingerd offers the connection when querying across the network. I'm not aware of any requirement to authenticate, but I'm sure I will be corrected if I'm wrong. This might pass some information (userids) that you do not wish to share in plain text. It would be more secure to have the service disabled and get the information (if you require it) with an ssh based command, such as:-
This is my senario.....
The user enters a userid into linux.
((I have have already scripted the command to read this userid.))
I need help in writing the script so It reads the userID and in conjuction w/ the finger command displays to the user "no plan" on the screen (so the user reads/sees... (4 Replies)
I'm trying to clean up my server and I have the list of some "special" users stored on the text file like this
Now I want to write a shell script to finger all of them so I can have some kind of ideas who they are but here comes the problem....I completely forgot how to do it with shell... (3 Replies)
Hello all,
Here is what I am trying to do. If a user exist, then send an echo "EXIST" or else "DOES NOT EXIST". (under HP-UX)
Kind of:
#!/usr/bin/sh
USER=mylogin
finger $USER
if $? = 0
then
echo "EXIST""
else
echo "DOES NOT EXIST"
fi (10 Replies)
Hi,
iam using sunsolaris.
when you type finger command -- it dispalys information about local and remote users.
but here it shows as can't stat /dev/gold:8664
can anybody help what is the solution for this error.
previously the output came.
thanks,
shan (1 Reply)
Hello all,
my unix is bash based and the finger command output is:
Login Name Tty Idle LoginTime Office
amos.john Amos John pts/26 1 Dec 5 16:18 (77.100.22.07)
What am trying to achieve is extract the Login (amos.john) and Name (Amos John) from this output without using awk or sed.
... (1 Reply)
I want to know the correct version of how i should use the finger command in this example below.(os is debian lenny)
(nymserver.pl is located in /home/nymserv directory.)
the two versions are :
(in/etc/inetd.conf)
finger stream tcp nowait nymuser /usr/nym/nymserv nymserv... (3 Replies)
Hi
Does anyone know if there is anyway of doing the finger command for all user id's in my enviroment. What I need to obtain is the full names of all users on the system.
I know if i do the finger command with no arguments it will list users currently logged in, but i need all users...
... (2 Replies)
how to extract user machine name for current terminal using finger command
below command gives machinename for all session , is it possible to filter it to only currernt terminal ?
finger -b -p $LOGNAME | grep from (12 Replies)
Hi,
I am writing script to take last logon user id detials by using finger command.
But I am getting below output.
wer34 Feb 10:23
I NEED to display
wer34 Feb 10 2013 10:23, Is there any way to get like this. (18 Replies)
Hi
I need to disable finger & telnet command in solaris 8
I have put the # infront of finger and telnet line in /etc/inetd.conf file. Further I have run the below command
kill -1 <process id of inetd >
But when I am running finger command it is till giving information for remote machine... (8 Replies)
Discussion started by: amity
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LEARN ABOUT MINIX
finger
FINGER(1) General Commands Manual FINGER(1)NAME
finger - user information lookup program
SYNOPSIS
finger [ options ] name ...
DESCRIPTION
By default finger lists the login name, full name, terminal name and write status (as a `*' before the terminal name if write permission is
denied), idle time, login time, and office location and phone number (if they are known) for each current UNIX user. (Idle time is minutes
if it is a single integer, hours and minutes if a ':' is present, or days and hours if a 'd' is present.)
A longer format also exists and is used by finger whenever a list of people's names is given. (Account names as well as first and last
names of users are accepted.) This format is multi-line, and includes all the information described above as well as the user's home
directory and login shell, any plan which the person has placed in the file .plan in their home directory, and the project on which they
are working from the file .project also in the home directory.
Finger may be used to lookup users on a remote machine. The format is to specify the user as ``user@host.'' If the user name is left off,
the standard format listing is provided on the remote machine.
Finger options include:
-m Match arguments only on user name.
-l Force long output format.
-p Suppress printing of the .plan files
-s Force short output format.
FILES
/etc/utmp who file
/etc/passwd for users names, offices, ...
/usr/adm/lastlog last login times
~/.plan plans
~/.project projects
SEE ALSO chfn(1), w(1), who(1).
AUTHOR
Earl T. Cohen
BUGS
Only the first line of the .project file is printed.
There is no way to pass arguments to the remote machine as finger uses an internet standard port.
4th Berkeley Distribution May 10, 1986 FINGER(1)