NAME

       efingerd - another finger daemon for linux

SYNOPSIS

       efingerd [-t X] [-f] [-n] [-u] [--help] [--version]

       efingerd should be run from inetd.

DESCRIPTION

       efingerd  is  another finger daemon, giving you complete control over what are you going to display about
       your computer.

OPTIONS

       --help Show summary of options and exit.

       --version
              Show version and exit.

       -t X   Lifetime for spawned services (in seconds) ex: -t 25  maintain connections for up  to  25  seconds
              (default: -t 60)

       -n     Do not lookup addresses, use IP numbers instead

       -i     Use ident service to query the name of the fingerer

       -f     Do not display users' full names.

       -u     Ignore user-specific .efingerd file

USAGE

       If  you  are  just an ordinary user and efingerd is already installed by your friendly administrator, you
       can take the advantage of it by making executable .efingerd in your home directory (it can be anything  -
       from  single shell script to a program in super-hyper-extra-object oriented language - only speed makes a
       difference). This program takes two arguments, the first is the name of remote  user  fingering  you  (or
       (null)  if  his/her/its  system  does  not  run  ident), the second one is address of his computer (or ip
       number, if efingerd is installed with option -n).  Standard output of this program is then  displayed  to
       the person fingering you. Look at examples/.efingerd for a nice example.

       Following executables are providing information about your machine to the fingerer:

       /etc/efingerd/list
         what to display when somebody does finger @your.machine

       /etc/efingerd/luser
         what  to  display  when  somebody  fingers  user  on  your machine, and the fingered user does not have
       ~/.efingerd file

       /etc/efingerd/nouser
         what to display when somebody fingers non-existent user on your machine

       If the local user has file .efingerd in his/her/its home directory, and it is readable by the daemon,  it
       will be executed and its output will be served to the fingerer.

       These  are  normal programs, displaying on standard output desired information. These programs are called
       with following parameters:
         $1 - identity of remote user, (null) if his/her/its system is not running ident
         $2 - address of remote machine (IP number if it has not reverse DNS entry or you specified -n)
         $3 - name of local user being fingered

       Look at examples/ for examples.  Don't forget that these programs must be executable by efingerd daemon.

SEE ALSO

       finger(1), fingerd(8)

AUTHOR

       Radovan Garabík (garabik@kassiopeia.juls.savba.sk)

BUGS

       file .efingerd in user's home directory must be executable and readable by UID  efingerd  runs  under  to
       work.

                                                                                                     EFINGERD(8)