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NAME
Finger, Whois, - Who is on the system.
SYNOPSIS
finger [-DIMPSTlmpw] [-i[hh:]mm] [*] [.] [username]
DESCRIPTION
finger will display users that are currently on the system
with some useful information. Examples of finger output are
shown below:
NAME GROUP FULLNAME WHAT IDLE TTY LOCATION
jql wheel John Q. Luser emacs tty02 window2
ksh 1 tty04 window4
root root The root of all evil sh 15:26*tty01 window1
jrl user J. Random Luser ksh 3:18 tty10 window10
In the above example:
User `jql' is logged on twice. One on tty02 running
emacs with no idle time and also on tty04 at a korn
shell prompt with a 1 minute idle time. User `jql' is
group wheel and his real name is "John Q. Luser".
root is logged in on tty01 at a Bourne shell prompt
with an idle time of 15 hours and 26 minutes. root's
is not receiving messages (denoted by the asterisk by
the tty name).
jrl (J. Random Luser) is logged in on tty10 at a ksh
prompt with an idle time of 3 hours and 18 minutes.
whois displays users that are currently on the system with
some in depth information about the users. Examples of
whois output are shown below:
NAME GROUP FULLNAME WHAT IDLE TTY LOCATION
jql wheel John Q. Luser emacs tty02 window2
ksh 9 tty04 window4
(Yo Man) </u/jql> Hacking finger and other system commands.
[100, 50] [/bin/ksh] Birthday June 14
Home 42 Aardvark Emporium; Phone 555-8537
Work Seal-On-A-Stick Inc;
[jql has had no mail since Sat Aug 6 16:17:36 1988]
No comment.
root root The root of all evil sh 15:34*tty01 window1
(root-boy) </> Hacking your id into shreads for I am uid 0!
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[0, 0] [/bin/sh]
[root has had no mail since Fri Aug 5 10:55:16 1988]
jrl user J. Random Luser ksh 3:25 tty10 window10
(jrl) </u/jrl> Hacking Mah Jongg for the fun of it.
[99, 51] [/bin/ksh] Birthday January 11
Home 1010 Nowhere Ln; Irkutsk, Eastern Siberia, USSR
Work is boring, so I'm never there.;
[jrl has had no mail since Thu Jul 14 23:00:26 1988]
I think I will go see what
Christopher Robin is doing ...
--Pooh
The format is obvious. I shall not explain it.
OPTIONS
Output of finger can be formated by the following options:
-D This options is only valid on SCO Xenix systems.
Finger (and whois) will not usually display a port that
is used as a DIALOUT. This options will display
DIALOUT lines if there are any currently are in use.
-G Sort by group name. -S is implicitly specified with
this option. -H Force a header to appear even if out-
put is not a tty.
-I Sort by idle time. From least to longest idle time.
-S is implicitly specified with this option.
-M Force no display of mailbox info.
-N No sortted output.
-P Force no display of plan.
-S Show repeated user names on output.
-T Sort by tty. -S is implicitly specified with this
option.
-W Don't display the what field.
-h Don't display the header.
-l Long output. Like whois without mailbox and plan info.
-m Display mailbox info if available.
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-p Display plan if available.
-w Do a whois. Like doing a finger -lmp
-i[[hh:]mm]
Don't show users with idle times greater than `hh'
hours and `mm' minutes. Deault is 30 minutes (:30).
* Show all users in the data base.
Show current user (yourself).
username
Show username whether logged in or not.
FILES
~/.plan The plan.
/usr/lib/finger/dbase/* database information for whois.
/usr/lib/finger/nlist nlist for quick access to the kernel.
SEE ALSO
bwiz(8l), ttyloc(1l), watson(1l)
AUTHOR
Keith M. Gabryelski (ag@amix.commodore.com)
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