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28 .\" @(#)finger.1 8.3 (Berkeley) 5/5/94
36 .Nd user information lookup program
41 .Op Ar user@host ...\&
45 utility displays information about the system users.
48 .Bl -tag -width indent
52 to use IPv4 addresses only.
56 to use IPv6 addresses only.
58 Display the user's login name, real name, terminal name and write
59 status (as a ``*'' before the terminal name if write permission is
60 denied), idle time, login time, and either office location and office
61 phone number, or the remote host.
64 is given, the office location and office phone number is printed
68 is given, the remote host is printed instead.
70 Idle time is in minutes if it is a single integer, hours and minutes
71 if a ``:'' is present, or days if a ``d'' is present.
74 the login time indicates the time of last login.
75 Login time is displayed as the day name if less than 6 days, else month, day;
76 hours and minutes, unless more than six months ago, in which case the year
77 is displayed rather than the hours and minutes.
79 Unknown devices as well as nonexistent idle and login times are
80 displayed as single asterisks.
82 When used in conjunction with the
84 option, the name of the remote host is displayed instead of the office
85 location and office phone.
87 When used in conjunction with the
89 option, the office location and office phone information is displayed
90 instead of the name of the remote host.
92 This option restricts the gecos output to only the users' real
94 It also has the side-effect of restricting the output
95 of the remote host when used in conjunction with the
99 Disable all use of the user accounting database.
101 Produce a multi-line format displaying all of the information
104 option as well as the user's home directory, home phone number, login
105 shell, mail status, and the contents of the files
111 from the user's home directory.
113 If idle time is at least a minute and less than a day, it is
114 presented in the form ``hh:mm''.
115 Idle times greater than a day are presented as ``d day[s]hh:mm''.
117 Phone numbers specified as eleven digits are printed as ``+N-NNN-NNN-NNNN''.
118 Numbers specified as ten or seven digits are printed as the appropriate
119 subset of that string.
120 Numbers specified as five digits are printed as ``xN-NNNN''.
121 Numbers specified as four digits are printed as ``xNNNN''.
123 If write permission is denied to the device, the phrase ``(messages off)''
124 is appended to the line containing the device name.
125 One entry per user is displayed with the
127 option; if a user is logged on multiple times, terminal information
128 is repeated once per login.
130 Mail status is shown as ``No Mail.'' if there is no mail at all, ``Mail
131 last read DDD MMM ## HH:MM YYYY (TZ)'' if the person has looked at their
132 mailbox since new mail arriving, or ``New mail received ...'', ``Unread
133 since ...'' if they have new mail.
140 from displaying the contents of the
152 is usually a login name; however, matching will also be done on the
153 users' real names, unless the
156 All name matching performed by
161 If no options are specified,
165 style output if operands are provided, otherwise to the
168 Note that some fields may be missing, in either format, if information
169 is not available for them.
171 If no arguments are specified,
173 will print an entry for each user currently logged into the system.
177 utility may be used to look up users on a remote machine.
178 The format is to specify a
184 where the default output
185 format for the former is the
187 style, and the default output format for the latter is the
192 option is the only option that may be passed to a remote machine.
196 exists in the user's home directory,
197 and the program is not run with superuser privileges,
199 behaves as if the user in question does not exist.
203 configuration file can be used to specify aliases.
208 aliases will work for both local and network queries.
212 utility utilizes the following environment variable, if it exists:
215 This variable may be set with favored options to
219 .Bl -tag -width /var/log/utx.lastlogin -compact
220 .It Pa /etc/finger.conf
221 alias definition data base
222 .It Pa /var/log/utx.lastlogin
233 .%T The Finger User Information Protocol
245 utility does not recognize multibyte characters.