Sep 28, 2023 · I'm running a small server Ubuntu 23.04 and have sudo privileges. I have a few other folks on the server and we are trying out finger. We've ...

Feb 3, 2023 · Reference article for the finger command, which displays information about users on a specified remote computer running the finger service or

Oct 2, 2003 · Solved: Hi I am trying to disable finger on a 11.11 server, I have commented the entry from both the /etc/inetd.conf and services files, ...

Oct 15, 2015 · According to strace finger , on my system it gets the list of current users from open("/var/run/utmp", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 4.

Dec 26, 2009 · The only real point to finger is that it allows remote people to see if you are actually logged in on a specific system. Not much call for that.