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Solaris™ 8 System Administrator's Reference
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Solaris™ 8 System Administrator's Reference

by Janice Winsor
September 2000
Beginner content levelBeginner
1312 pages
33h 47m
English
Pearson
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in.fingerd, fingerd Remote User Information Server

Synopsis

/usr/sbin/in.fingerd

Description

The fingerd daemon provides information about users that are logged in to a system. The fingerd waits for connections on TCP port 79. When connected, it reads a single command line terminated by Return-linefeed, prepends the -s option, and passes the command on to the local finger(1) program. As soon as the output is finished, fingerd closes its connections.

You must invoke fingerd from inetd. See inetd(1M) for more information.

fingerd implements the server side of the Name/Finger protocol specified in RFC 742. The Name/Finger protocol provides a remote interface to programs that display information on system status and individual users. The protocol ...

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