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:-
I hope that this helps,
Robin
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 MOJAVE
in.fingerd
in.fingerd(1M) System Administration Commands in.fingerd(1M)NAME
in.fingerd, fingerd - remote user information server
SYNOPSIS
/usr/sbin/in.fingerd
DESCRIPTION
fingerd implements the server side of the Name/Finger protocol, specified in RFC 742. The Name/Finger protocol provides a remote interface
to programs which display information on system status and individual users. The protocol imposes little structure on the format of the
exchange between client and server. The client provides a single command line to the finger server which returns a printable reply.
fingerd waits for connections on TCP port 79. Once connected, it reads a single command line terminated by RETURN-LINEFEED and passes the
arguments to finger(1), prepended with -s. fingerd closes its connections as soon as the output is finished.
FILES
/var/adm/utmpx User and accounting information.
/etc/passwd System password file.
/var/adm/lastlog Last login times.
$HOME/.plan User's plans.
$HOME/.project User's projects.
USAGE
fingerd and in.fingerd are IPv6-enabled. See ip6(7P).
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWrcmds |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO finger(1), svcs(1), inetadm(1M), inetd(1M), svcadm(1M), attributes(5), smf(5), ip6(7P)
Harrenstien, Ken, RFC 742, NAME/FINGER, Network Information Center, SRI International, Menlo Park, Calif., December 1977.
NOTES
Connecting directly to the server from a TIP or an equally narrow-minded TELNET-protocol user program can result in meaningless attempts at
option negotiation being sent to the server, which foul up the command line interpretation. fingerd should be taught to filter out IAC's
and perhaps even respond negatively (IAC does not) to all option commands received.
The in.fingerd service is managed by the service management facility, smf(5), under the service identifier:
svc:/network/finger:default
Administrative actions on this service, such as enabling, disabling, or requesting restart, can be performed using svcadm(1M). Responsibil-
ity for initiating and restarting this service is delegated to inetd(1M). Use inetadm(1M) to make configuration changes and to view config-
uration information for this service. The service's status can be queried using the svcs(1) command.
SunOS 5.10 31 Jul 2004 in.fingerd(1M)