cs911461@ariel.yorku.ca (CHRISTIAN D. ARMOUR) writes:


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>Greetings all,

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>Is there a command equivalent to the ubiqitous 'finger' command available for
>Linux?  I hope this isn't a stupid question but I need something which displays
>the users' actual names, when they last logged on and everything else.

I ported a version of the finger command from BSD, and it seems to work very
well.  I was running linux 0.96c when I grabbed it, so all of the tcp/ip stuff
is commented out.  Several other trivial changes were also needed to get it
to run correctly.  I also wrote a simple chfn program so that user names, offices,
etc can easily be changed.  If anyone is interested, I could upload these
to sunsite and tsx-11.  You might have more fun hacking this stuff out for 
yourself, though.  Up to you.

You might also want to grab the usradm (I think... something like this) package 
from the /pub/Linux/utils/administration directory.  It contains last, which
lists login times and durations for all users.

Kris