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From: Spidey <beaupran@jsp.umontreal.ca>
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To: "Jan B. Koum " <jkb@best.com>
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Subject: Re: finger broken?
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On Wed, 19 Aug 1998, Jan B. Koum  wrote:

> 
> 	Do you have $HOME/.nofinger file?

nope. already checked. should have mentionnned.
 
> % touch $HOME/.nofinger
> % finger jkb
> finger: jkb: no such user
> % id
> uid=1000(jkb) gid=1000(jkb) groups=1000(jkb), 0(wheel)
> % 

id:

uid=1000(beaupran) gid=0(wheel) groups=0(wheel), 2(kmem), 3(sys), 4(tty),
5(operator), 7(bin), 13(games), 20(staff), 31(guest), 68(dialer),
69(network)

 
> 	Do you show up with a "w" though?

yes.
 
> -- Yan
> 
> www.best.com/~jkb/         Unix users of the world unite:
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> "Turn up the lights, I don't want to go home in the dark."
> 
> On Wed, 19 Aug 1998, Spidey wrote:
> 
> >On Wed, 19 Aug 1998, Doug White wrote:
> >> 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.
> >
> >AAAAARRRRGH! :)
> >
> >no joking, I can't finger myself! I don't understand!
> > 
> >> > 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.
> >
> >why?
> >
> >Spidey
> >
> >How 'bout a little ride through your own world?
> >http://www.JSP.UMontreal.CA/~beaupran/
> >
> >
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> 

Spidey

How 'bout a little ride through your own world?
http://www.JSP.UMontreal.CA/~beaupran/


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