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4 FINGER—Displaying Network User Information
The FINGER client allows you to get information about users who are currently logged on to a
system on the network. You can request information about a single user or all current users on a
system. The type of information provided and the format in which it appears vary depending on
what is provided by the FINGER server on the system you specify.
For more detailed technical information about FINGER, refer to Network Working Group RFC1288.
This RFC is available at several Web sites. To find these sites, type “RFC 1288” in the search field
of your Internet search engine.
Running FINGER at a Terminal
You use the FINGER run command to request information. The format of the command is:
finger [/run-option [, run-option ]... /][ user[@host] ]
[ user ]
[ @host ]
run-option
is an operating system RUN command option. See the RUN command in the TACL Reference
Manual for a complete description of the run options. The most useful run option to use with
FINGER is the OUT filename option. See
“Sending Information to a File” (page 34) , in this
section for an example of using this option.
user[ @host]
is the name of the user you want described. Specify the user name or user ID as required by
the user’s system. If you want information about a local user, you can omit @host. If the user
resides on a Guardian system, user must take the form group.user, where group is the
Guardian home group for the user.
user
is the name of the user, on the local system, you want described. Specify the user name or
user ID as required by the user’s system. If the user resides on a Guardian system, user must
take the form group.user, where group is the Guardian home group for the user.
@host
identifies a remote system. You can specify a host name or host address. See Addressing
Remote Hosts on page 1-5, in Section 1, Introduction to TCP/IP Applications and Utilities, for
information about specifying host names and addresses. If you specify @host but omit
user, information about all users on the host system is displaye
d.
If you omit both user and @host, information about all users on your local system is displayed.
NOTE: Ask your system manager for the name of the TCP/IP process on your system. If the
process is named anything other than $ZTC0, you need to resolve the DEFINE name
=TCPIP^PROCESS^NAME before running FINGER.
You might also need to resolve the DEFINE name =TCPIP^HOST^FILE.
Refer to the TCP/IP Configuration and Management Manual , TCP/IPv6 Configuration and
Management Manual or the Cluster I/O Protocols (CIP) Configuration and Management Manual
for more information about DEFINE names, domain name resolution, and starting clients and
servers.
Displaying Information
The following examples illustrate the four methods you can use to request information.
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