HP-UX Reference (11i v1 05/09) - 1M System Administration Commands A-M (vol 3)

ﬁngerd(1M) ﬁngerd(1M)

NAME

ﬁngerd - remote user information server

SYNOPSIS

/usr/lbin/fingerd

[-r]

DESCRIPTION

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.

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

fingerd was developed by the University of California, Berkeley and HP.