From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 30 01:38:44 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA06454 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 30 Jan 1999 01:38:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA06446 for ; Sat, 30 Jan 1999 01:38:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id UAA07629; Sat, 30 Jan 1999 20:08:36 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.2/8.9.0) id UAA55337; Sat, 30 Jan 1999 20:08:35 +1030 (CST) Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 20:08:35 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Divideby0 Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: finger Message-ID: <19990130200835.D8473@freebie.lemis.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Divideby0 on Sat, Jan 30, 1999 at 02:09:48PM +0500 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Saturday, 30 January 1999 at 14:09:48 +0500, Divideby0 wrote: > > is there anyway for me to find out the identity of the person > fingering me or trace the finger ... could someone also point out how the > finger deamon works or where i could look up the info Well, you can't find the user (unless he's local), but you can find the system with tcpdump. For example, if you're using Kernel ppp, you might enter: #tcpdump -i ppp0 port finger tcpdump: listening on ppp0 20:06:09.127181 freefall.FreeBSD.ORG.1094 > freebie.lemis.com.finger: S 475004960:475004960(0) win 16500 (DF) 20:06:09.127295 freebie.lemis.com.finger > freefall.FreeBSD.ORG.1094: S 3881020639:3881020639(0) ack 475004961 win 17376 (DF) 20:06:09.637741 freefall.FreeBSD.ORG.1094 > freebie.lemis.com.finger: P 1:7(6) ack 1 win 17376 (DF) 20:06:09.722565 freebie.lemis.com.finger > freefall.FreeBSD.ORG.1094: . ack 7 win 17370 (DF) 20:06:09.895732 freebie.lemis.com.finger > freefall.FreeBSD.ORG.1094: . 1:1449(1448) ack 7 win 17376 (DF) 20:06:09.896086 freebie.lemis.com.finger > freefall.FreeBSD.ORG.1094: . 1449:2897(1448) ack 7 win 17376 (DF) 20:06:11.119907 freefall.FreeBSD.ORG.1094 > freebie.lemis.com.finger: . ack 1449 win 17376 (DF) 20:06:11.119990 freebie.lemis.com.finger > freefall.FreeBSD.ORG.1094: FP 2897:2928(31) ack 7 win 17376 (DF) 20:06:11.523945 freefall.FreeBSD.ORG.1094 > freebie.lemis.com.finger: . ack 2897 win 17376 (DF) 20:06:11.622928 freefall.FreeBSD.ORG.1094 > freebie.lemis.com.finger: . ack 2929 win 17345 (DF) 20:06:11.631939 freefall.FreeBSD.ORG.1094 > freebie.lemis.com.finger: F 7:7(0) ack 2929 win 17376 (DF) 20:06:11.631985 freebie.lemis.com.finger > freefall.FreeBSD.ORG.1094: . ack 8 win 17376 (DF) This shows an exchange where I ran the following command on freefall.FreeBSD.org: $ finger grog@lemis.com Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message