fingerd(1M) fingerd(1M)
NAME [Toc] [Back]
fingerd - remote user information server
SYNOPSIS [Toc] [Back]
/usr/lbin/fingerd [-r]
DESCRIPTION [Toc] [Back]
fingerd is the server for the RFC 742 Name/Finger protocol. It
provides a network interface to finger, which gives a status report of
users currently logged in on the system or a detailed report about a
specific user (see finger(1)). The Internet daemon executes fingerd
when it receives a service request at the port listed in the services
data base for ``finger'' using ``tcp'' protocol; see inetd(1M) and
services(4).
To start fingerd from inetd, the configuration file /etc/inetd.conf
must contain an entry as follows:
finger stream tcp nowait bin /usr/lbin/fingerd fingerd
Once a remote host is connected, fingerd reads a single ``command
line'' terminated by a carriage-return and line-feed. It uses this
command line as the arguments to an invocation of finger. fingerd
sends the output of finger to the remote host and closes the
connection.
If the command line is null (contains only a carriage-return and
line-feed pair), finger returns a report that lists all users logged
in on the system at that moment.
If a user name is specified on the command line (for example,
user<CR><LF>), the response lists more extended information for only
that particular user, whether logged in or not. See finger(1) for the
details of this extended information.
If fingerd is run with the -r option, it allows remote user names on
the command line (for example, user@host<CR><LF>). Otherwise, if the
command line contains a remote user name, fingerd prints the error
message Remote finger not allowed and closes the connection.
AUTHOR [Toc] [Back]
fingerd was developed by the University of California, Berkeley and
HP.
SEE ALSO [Toc] [Back]
finger(1), inetd(1M), services(4),
RFC 742 for the Name/Finger protocol.
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