Annotation of src/usr.bin/finger/finger.1, Revision 1.13
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36: .Dd July 27, 1991
37: .Dt FINGER 1
1.9 aaron 38: .Os
1.1 deraadt 39: .Sh NAME
40: .Nm finger
41: .Nd user information lookup program
42: .Sh SYNOPSIS
43: .Nm finger
1.4 kstailey 44: .Op Fl lmMspho
1.1 deraadt 45: .Op Ar user ...
1.12 aaron 46: .Nm finger
47: .Op Fl l
1.1 deraadt 48: .Op Ar user@host ...
49: .Sh DESCRIPTION
50: The
1.10 aaron 51: .Nm
1.12 aaron 52: utility displays information about local and remote system users.
53: By default, the following information is displayed about each user
54: currently logged-in to the local host:
55: .Pp
56: .Bl -bullet -offset indent -compact
57: .It
58: login name
59: .It
60: user's full name
61: .It
62: associated terminal name
63: .It
64: idle time
65: .It
66: login time
67: .It
68: office location
69: .It
70: office phone
71: .El
1.1 deraadt 72: .Pp
73: Idle time is in minutes if it is a single integer, hours and minutes
1.12 aaron 74: if a
75: .Ql \&:
76: is present, or days if a
77: .Sq d
78: is present.
79: Login time is displayed as the day name if less than six days,
1.4 kstailey 80: else month, day, hours and minutes, unless
1.1 deraadt 81: more than six months ago, in which case the year is displayed rather
82: than the hours and minutes.
83: .Pp
1.12 aaron 84: The names of terminals for which write permission is denied (see
85: .Xr mesg 1 )
86: are prepended with an asterisk
87: .Pq Sq \&* .
1.1 deraadt 88: Unknown devices as well as nonexistent idle and login times are
89: displayed as single asterisks.
1.4 kstailey 90: .Pp
1.12 aaron 91: The options are as follows:
92: .Bl -tag -width flag
93: .It Fl s
94: Short format (default).
95: The information as described above is displayed in a columnar fashion.
96: .Pp
1.4 kstailey 97: .It Fl h
1.12 aaron 98: If the
1.4 kstailey 99: .Fl s
1.12 aaron 100: option is also specified, the name of the remote host is displayed instead of
101: the office location and office phone.
1.4 kstailey 102: .Pp
103: .It Fl o
1.12 aaron 104: If the
1.4 kstailey 105: .Fl s
1.12 aaron 106: option is also specified, the office location and office phone is displayed
1.4 kstailey 107: instead of the name of the remote host.
1.1 deraadt 108: .Pp
109: .It Fl l
1.12 aaron 110: Long format.
111: Produces a multi-line format displaying all of the information available from
112: the
1.1 deraadt 113: .Fl s
114: option as well as the user's home directory, home phone number, login
1.12 aaron 115: shell, mail status, and the contents of the
1.1 deraadt 116: .Dq Pa .plan
117: and
118: .Dq Pa .project
1.12 aaron 119: files from the user's home directory.
1.1 deraadt 120: .Pp
121: If idle time is at least a minute and less than a day, it is
1.12 aaron 122: presented in the form
123: .Dq hh:mm .
124: Idle times greater than a day are presented as
125: .Dq d day[s]hh:mm .
1.1 deraadt 126: .Pp
1.12 aaron 127: Phone numbers specified as eleven digits are printed as
128: .Dq +N-NNN-NNN-NNNN .
1.1 deraadt 129: Numbers specified as ten or seven digits are printed as the appropriate
130: subset of that string.
1.12 aaron 131: Numbers specified as five digits are printed as
132: .Dq xN-NNNN .
133: Numbers specified as four digits are printed as
134: .Dq xNNNN .
1.1 deraadt 135: .Pp
1.12 aaron 136: If write permission is denied to the device, the phrase
137: .Dq (messages off)
1.1 deraadt 138: is appended to the line containing the device name.
139: One entry per user is displayed with the
140: .Fl l
141: option; if a user is logged on multiple times, terminal information
142: is repeated once per login.
143: .Pp
1.12 aaron 144: Mail status is shown as
145: .Dq \&No Mail.
146: if there is no mail at all,
147: .Do
148: Mail last read DDD MMM ## HH:MM YYYY (TZ)
149: .Dc
150: if the person has looked
151: at their mailbox since new mail arriving, or
152: .Dq New mail received ... ,
153: .Dq Unread since ...
154: if they have new mail.
1.1 deraadt 155: .Pp
156: .It Fl p
157: Prevents
158: the
159: .Fl l
160: option of
1.10 aaron 161: .Nm
1.1 deraadt 162: from displaying the contents of the
163: .Dq Pa .plan
164: and
165: .Dq Pa .project
166: files.
167: .It Fl m
168: Prevent matching of
169: .Ar user
170: names.
171: .Ar User
172: is usually a login name; however, matching will also be done on the
173: users' real names, unless the
174: .Fl m
175: option is supplied.
176: All name matching performed by
1.10 aaron 177: .Nm
1.1 deraadt 178: is case insensitive.
1.3 downsj 179: .It Fl M
180: Enable matching of
181: .Ar user
1.13 ! aaron 182: names.
! 183: This is disabled by default on systems running YP or with large
1.11 downsj 184: password databases.
1.1 deraadt 185: .El
186: .Pp
187: If no options are specified,
1.10 aaron 188: .Nm
1.1 deraadt 189: defaults to the
190: .Fl l
191: style output if operands are provided, otherwise to the
192: .Fl s
193: style.
194: Note that some fields may be missing, in either format, if information
195: is not available for them.
196: .Pp
1.10 aaron 197: .Nm
1.1 deraadt 198: may be used to look up users on a remote machine.
199: The format is to specify a
200: .Ar user
201: as
202: .Dq Li user@host ,
203: or
204: .Dq Li @host ,
205: where the default output
206: format for the former is the
207: .Fl l
208: style, and the default output format for the latter is the
209: .Fl s
210: style.
211: The
212: .Fl l
213: option is the only option that may be passed to a remote machine.
214: .Sh SEE ALSO
215: .Xr chpass 1 ,
216: .Xr w 1 ,
1.8 alex 217: .Xr who 1 ,
218: .Xr fingerd 8
1.1 deraadt 219: .Sh HISTORY
220: The
1.10 aaron 221: .Nm
1.1 deraadt 222: command appeared in
223: .Bx 3.0 .
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