Unix Third Edition: Visual Quickstart Guide

Finding Out About Users with finger

Using the finger command, you can find out who is currently logged into the Unix system as well as what they’re doing, how long they’ve been logged in, and other snoopy, not-necessarily-your-business information (Code Listing 7.8).

To find out who is logged in using finger:

1.	finger At the shell prompt, type finger to see who else is logged into the system and to get a little information about them (Code Listing 7.8).
2.	finger @example.com Type finger, @, and a host name (in this case example.com) to find out who is logged into another host. Fingering a different host doesn’t always work, depending on security settings on the other host computer(s). If the host doesn’t allow it, you’ll get a message like ...