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IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 24.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 25.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 26.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 27.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 28.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 29.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 30.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 31.\" 32.\" @(#)finger.1 8.3 (Berkeley) 5/5/94 33.\" $FreeBSD$ 34.\" 35.Dd April 11, 2007 36.Dt FINGER 1 37.Os 38.Sh NAME 39.Nm finger 40.Nd user information lookup program 41.Sh SYNOPSIS 42.Nm 43.Op Fl 46gklmpsho 44.Op Ar user ...\& 45.Op Ar user@host ...\& 46.Sh DESCRIPTION 47The 48.Nm 49utility displays information about the system users. 50.Pp 51Options are: 52.Bl -tag -width indent 53.It Fl 4 54Forces 55.Nm 56to use IPv4 addresses only. 57.It Fl 6 58Forces 59.Nm 60to use IPv6 addresses only. 61.It Fl s 62Display the user's login name, real name, terminal name and write 63status (as a ``*'' before the terminal name if write permission is 64denied), idle time, login time, and either office location and office 65phone number, or the remote host. 66If 67.Fl o 68is given, the office location and office phone number is printed 69(the default). 70If 71.Fl h 72is given, the remote host is printed instead. 73.Pp 74Idle time is in minutes if it is a single integer, hours and minutes 75if a ``:'' is present, or days if a ``d'' is present. 76If it is an 77.Dq * , 78the login time indicates the time of last login. 79Login time is displayed as the day name if less than 6 days, else month, day; 80hours and minutes, unless more than six months ago, in which case the year 81is displayed rather than the hours and minutes. 82.Pp 83Unknown devices as well as nonexistent idle and login times are 84displayed as single asterisks. 85.It Fl h 86When used in conjunction with the 87.Fl s 88option, the name of the remote host is displayed instead of the office 89location and office phone. 90.It Fl o 91When used in conjunction with the 92.Fl s 93option, the office location and office phone information is displayed 94instead of the name of the remote host. 95.It Fl g 96This option restricts the gecos output to only the users' real 97name. 98It also has the side-effect of restricting the output 99of the remote host when used in conjunction with the 100.Fl h 101option. 102.It Fl k 103Disable all use of 104.Xr utmp 5 . 105.It Fl l 106Produce a multi-line format displaying all of the information 107described for the 108.Fl s 109option as well as the user's home directory, home phone number, login 110shell, mail status, and the contents of the files 111.Pa .forward , 112.Pa .plan , 113.Pa .project 114and 115.Pa .pubkey 116from the user's home directory. 117.Pp 118If idle time is at least a minute and less than a day, it is 119presented in the form ``hh:mm''. 120Idle times greater than a day are presented as ``d day[s]hh:mm''. 121.Pp 122Phone numbers specified as eleven digits are printed as ``+N-NNN-NNN-NNNN''. 123Numbers specified as ten or seven digits are printed as the appropriate 124subset of that string. 125Numbers specified as five digits are printed as ``xN-NNNN''. 126Numbers specified as four digits are printed as ``xNNNN''. 127.Pp 128If write permission is denied to the device, the phrase ``(messages off)'' 129is appended to the line containing the device name. 130One entry per user is displayed with the 131.Fl l 132option; if a user is logged on multiple times, terminal information 133is repeated once per login. 134.Pp 135Mail status is shown as ``No Mail.'' if there is no mail at all, ``Mail 136last read DDD MMM ## HH:MM YYYY (TZ)'' if the person has looked at their 137mailbox since new mail arriving, or ``New mail received ...'', ``Unread 138since ...'' if they have new mail. 139.It Fl p 140Prevent 141the 142.Fl l 143option of 144.Nm 145from displaying the contents of the 146.Pa .forward , 147.Pa .plan , 148.Pa .project 149and 150.Pa .pubkey 151files. 152.It Fl m 153Prevent matching of 154.Ar user 155names. 156.Ar User 157is usually a login name; however, matching will also be done on the 158users' real names, unless the 159.Fl m 160option is supplied. 161All name matching performed by 162.Nm 163is case insensitive. 164.El 165.Pp 166If no options are specified, 167.Nm 168defaults to the 169.Fl l 170style output if operands are provided, otherwise to the 171.Fl s 172style. 173Note that some fields may be missing, in either format, if information 174is not available for them. 175.Pp 176If no arguments are specified, 177.Nm 178will print an entry for each user currently logged into the system. 179.Pp 180The 181.Nm 182utility may be used to look up users on a remote machine. 183The format is to specify a 184.Ar user 185as 186.Dq Li user@host , 187or 188.Dq Li @host , 189where the default output 190format for the former is the 191.Fl l 192style, and the default output format for the latter is the 193.Fl s 194style. 195The 196.Fl l 197option is the only option that may be passed to a remote machine. 198.Pp 199If the file 200.Pa .nofinger 201exists in the user's home directory, 202and the program is not run with superuser privileges, 203.Nm 204behaves as if the user in question does not exist. 205.Pp 206The optional 207.Xr finger.conf 5 208configuration file can be used to specify aliases. 209Since 210.Nm 211is invoked by 212.Xr fingerd 8 , 213aliases will work for both local and network queries. 214.Sh ENVIRONMENT 215The 216.Nm 217utility utilizes the following environment variable, if it exists: 218.Bl -tag -width Fl 219.It Ev FINGER 220This variable may be set with favored options to 221.Nm . 222.El 223.Sh FILES 224.Bl -tag -width /var/log/lastlog -compact 225.It Pa /etc/finger.conf 226alias definition data base 227.It Pa /var/log/lastlog 228last login data base 229.El 230.Sh SEE ALSO 231.Xr chpass 1 , 232.Xr w 1 , 233.Xr who 1 , 234.Xr finger.conf 5 , 235.Xr fingerd 8 236.Rs 237.%A D. Zimmerman 238.%T The Finger User Information Protocol 239.%R RFC 1288 240.%D December, 1991 241.Re 242.Sh HISTORY 243The 244.Nm 245command appeared in 246.Bx 3.0 . 247.Sh BUGS 248The 249.Nm 250utility does not recognize multibyte characters. 251