#finger

A simple, small, and portable finger client and server.

#About

A simple finger client and server written in C89 that can be built on almost any POSIX 200809 or X/Open 700 system. In order to build documentation scdoc is needed.

#Usage

#finger

To query a finger server just run:

finger [user@]hostname

where hostname is the hostname of the system and user (which is optional) is the name of the user.

#fingerd

To start the finger server just run (as root):

fingerd

By default, fingerd binds to 127.0.0.1 (a.k.a. localhost) and to port 79 which is the default finger port. It will look for any users within the finger group.