Finger Information

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Hey, I was wondering If anybody knew of a way to make a log of all users who type the command finger username when username is my own.

I would like to see who is keeping track of me :slight_smile:

Thanks

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Well, if you happen to be the unix administrator, you could front-end the finger command with a little script. Just tested out OK for me. I renamed /bin/finger to /bin/fingerACTUAL, then installed my script to /bin/finger:

#/bin/sh
# finger front-end script
expr "$*" : ".*jboothe.*" > /dev/null &&
  echo `date;whoami` >> /tmp/finger.log
fingerACTUAL "$*"
exit $?

You need to allow for "finger user1 user2 user3". If your username appears in the parameter list, it will append to a log file. It does not delimit the search string in any way, so if you are looking for jdoe, you would also get jdoe2 etc.

Passing the parameters as $@ might be more appropriate??? It exits with the status code that fingerACTUAL returns.

There may be issues that I am not aware of, so I must say use at your own risk.

3

Sadly I am not an administrator though, thanks for your reply all the same

Any other suggestions?

4

Try taking your unix administrator out to lunch. :smiley: