finger
From NetBSD Wiki
The finger(1) command displays user information about the system users.
% finger Login Name Tty Idle Login Time Office Office Phone root Charlie Root *console - Thu 15:48 john John Doe ttyp0 - Thu 23:46
When a user name is supplied, it prints additional information about the user.
% finger john Login: john Name: John Doe Directory: /home/john Shell: /bin/csh On since Thu Jul 27 23:46 (CEST) on ttyp0 from 192.168.0.200 No Mail. No Plan. %
Finger may be used to look up users on a remote machine. For that, the finger service must be enabled.
% finger john@holsten.export.de [holsten.export.de] Login: john Name: John Doe Directory: /home/john Shell: /bin/csh On since Thu Jul 25 1:24 (CEST) on ttyp9 from 85-214-32-44.holsten.edel.net No Mail. No Plan. %
fingerd
The finger service runs on port 79. To enable it just uncomment the finger line in your /etc/inetd.conf and restart your inetd with
/etc/rc.d/inetd restart
The finger service is turned off by default.
Please be aware that you expose sensitive data to the internet by running this service.
