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32 .\" @(#)finger.1 8.3 (Berkeley) 5/5/94
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41 .Nd user information lookup program
46 .Op Ar user@host ...\&
50 utility displays information about the system users.
53 .Bl -tag -width indent
57 to use IPv4 addresses only.
61 to use IPv6 addresses only.
63 Pass through 8-bit data. This option is intended for enabling 8-bit
66 service. Using this from the command line is
68 as the output data may include control characters for your terminal.
70 Display the user's login name, real name, terminal name and write
71 status (as a ``*'' before the terminal name if write permission is
72 denied), idle time, login time, and either office location and office
73 phone number, or the remote host.
76 is given, the office location and office phone number is printed
80 is given, the remote host is printed instead.
82 Idle time is in minutes if it is a single integer, hours and minutes
83 if a ``:'' is present, or days if a ``d'' is present.
86 the login time indicates the time of last login.
87 Login time is displayed as the day name if less than 6 days, else month, day;
88 hours and minutes, unless more than six months ago, in which case the year
89 is displayed rather than the hours and minutes.
91 Unknown devices as well as nonexistent idle and login times are
92 displayed as single asterisks.
94 When used in conjunction with the
96 option, the name of the remote host is displayed instead of the office
97 location and office phone.
99 When used in conjunction with the
101 option, the office location and office phone information is displayed
102 instead of the name of the remote host.
104 This option restricts the gecos output to only the users' real
106 It also has the side-effect of restricting the output
107 of the remote host when used in conjunction with the
111 Produce a multi-line format displaying all of the information
114 option as well as the user's home directory, home phone number, login
115 shell, mail status, and the contents of the files
121 from the user's home directory.
123 If idle time is at least a minute and less than a day, it is
124 presented in the form ``hh:mm''.
125 Idle times greater than a day are presented as ``d day[s]hh:mm''.
127 Phone numbers specified as eleven digits are printed as ``+N-NNN-NNN-NNNN''.
128 Numbers specified as ten or seven digits are printed as the appropriate
129 subset of that string.
130 Numbers specified as five digits are printed as ``xN-NNNN''.
131 Numbers specified as four digits are printed as ``xNNNN''.
133 If write permission is denied to the device, the phrase ``(messages off)''
134 is appended to the line containing the device name.
135 One entry per user is displayed with the
137 option; if a user is logged on multiple times, terminal information
138 is repeated once per login.
140 Mail status is shown as ``No Mail.'' if there is no mail at all, ``Mail
141 last read DDD MMM ## HH:MM YYYY (TZ)'' if the person has looked at their
142 mailbox since new mail arriving, or ``New mail received ...'', ``Unread
143 since ...'' if they have new mail.
150 from displaying the contents of the
162 is usually a login name; however, matching will also be done on the
163 users' real names, unless the
166 All name matching performed by
170 Disable the piggybacking of data on the initial connection request.
171 This option is needed to finger hosts with a broken TCP implementation.
174 If no options are specified,
178 style output if operands are provided, otherwise to the
181 Note that some fields may be missing, in either format, if information
182 is not available for them.
184 If no arguments are specified,
186 will print an entry for each user currently logged into the system.
190 utility may be used to look up users on a remote machine.
191 The format is to specify a
197 where the default output
198 format for the former is the
200 style, and the default output format for the latter is the
205 option is the only option that may be passed to a remote machine.
209 exists in the user's home directory,
211 behaves as if the user in question does not exist.
215 configuration file can be used to specify aliases.
220 aliases will work for both local and network queries.
224 utility utilizes the following environment variable, if it exists:
227 This variable may be set with favored options to
231 .Bl -tag -width /var/log/lastlog -compact
232 .It Pa /etc/finger.conf
233 alias definition data base
234 .It Pa /var/log/lastlog
245 .%T The Finger User Information Protocol
255 The current FINGER protocol RFC requires that the client keep the connection
256 fully open until the server closes.
257 This prevents the use of the optimal
258 three-packet T/TCP exchange.
259 (Servers which depend on this requirement are
260 bogus but have nonetheless been observed in the Internet at large.)