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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)

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