From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 19 11:43:00 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA02141 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 19 Aug 1998 11:43:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA02115 for ; Wed, 19 Aug 1998 11:42:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA02340; Wed, 19 Aug 1998 11:42:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 11:42:11 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Spidey cc: Questions=answers Subject: Re: finger broken? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 18 Aug 1998, Spidey wrote: > I tried recently: > > finger $user > finger: beaupran: no such user > > hmmm. I am. I am a user. Your system hates you. > ok let's try the root: > > beaupran@outpost [7:22pm] ~> finger root > Login: root Name: Charlie Root > Directory: /root Shell: /usr/local/bin/tcsh > Never logged in. > No Mail. > No Plan. > > good. this works... > > curious... > > BTW, why the 'Charlie' before the root? Is it a traditional root nick? Yup. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message