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in.fingerd(8) UNIX System Manager's Manual in.fingerd(8)
NAME
in.fingerd - remote user information server
SYNOPSIS
in.fingerd [-g]
DESCRIPTION
in.fingerd is a daemon based on RFC 1288 and the Personal Information
Protocol (PIP) that provides an interface to the finger and the pfinger
programs. The program is supposed to return a friendly, human-oriented
status report on either the system at the moment or a particular person
in depth.
INVOCATION
The in.fingerd deamon is not a standalone server. It must be started by
a ``super-server'' like inetd(8) and does not need to be run as root.
Options to fingerd should be specified in /etc/inetd.conf. You may
start it on the command line to test your configuration.
The PFinger in.fingerd does not print information about users that have
a user id lower than 100 or about users that have a file .nofinger in
their home directory. It also does not allow indirect fingers (e.g.
user@hostA@hostB). Further the user information does not contain the
users shell, home directory and last login time.
OPTIONS
in.fingerd accepts the following options:
-g GNU Finger compatibility mode. If you use the GNU fingerd and
in.cfingerd to gather information about a whole site, you can use
this option to emulate the behaviour of the GNU in.fingerd
program. This mainly means that the login information is taken
from the GNU Finger hostdata file.
-c file
Use file as configuration file. Default is /etc/fingerconf
-v Verbose output. Use this if something does somehow not work and
you want to know more.
-V Prints the version number and exits.
-d Debug modus. Note: debugging must be compiled in.
-h Prints a short option summary and exits.
-w -u -l -L -p
Ignored but accepted for compatibility reasons.
FILES
/etc/fingerconf Host finger configuration.
SEE ALSO
pfinger(1), finger(1), fingerconf(5), inetd(8)
RESTRICTIONS
Connecting directly to the server, using a telnet program, that tries
to negotiate any options, will not work. Workaround: delete it and use
a real telnet program.
BUGS
Report bugs to pfinger@xelia.ch
PFinger $Date: 1999/07/07 07:34:14 $ in.fingerd(8)