Finger indicates information about a certain user on a local system and/or on a remote computer or serves for the statement to the availability of a certain host in TCP/IP nets.

To the indicated information belong:

• User name (log in name)
• Full name of the user
• Announcing time
• Time interval like for a long time the user is already inactive
• Terminal of that announced itself the user

In addition, finger can be used to convey other information. In addition a user in its Home listing can put on a.plan file, whose contents are delivered with the finger access.

In order to query information about a user on a distant host, the host must support the finger service, which nowadays the case is rather rare. Usually this occupies the TCP haven 79.Auf of the command line in addition the following instruction is then implemented:

 finger benutzername@hostname 

History

Finger minutes are based one of older minutes from the Internet minutes Familie.Es on original name/finger minutes (RFC 742), which the connection to the programs name and finger were implemented and defined in the year 1977 as RFC. The finger program was originally developed by Les Earnest 1971. Earnest developed the program, in order to give to users the possibility of being able to experience information from other users in the network. Before the finger program the only possibility was of getting these information who the program, which to IDs and terminal numbers the logged in user indicated. The current version RFC 1288 of the minutes definition was specified 1991.

Related links

• RFC 742
• RFC 1288
• Mails of Les Earnest, those the origins of finger explain (EN)

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