From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 18 16:22:52 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA25959 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 18 Aug 1998 16:22:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from harfang.CC.UMontreal.CA (harfang.CC.UMontreal.CA [132.204.2.102]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA25951 for ; Tue, 18 Aug 1998 16:22:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from beaupran@JSP.UMontreal.CA) Received: from epsom.jsp.umontreal.ca (epsom.JSP.UMontreal.CA [132.204.45.25]) by harfang.CC.UMontreal.CA (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id TAA21123 for ; Tue, 18 Aug 1998 19:22:12 -0400 (EDT) Received: from outpost.nada.org (derby.jsp.umontreal.ca [132.204.45.26]) by epsom.jsp.umontreal.ca via SMTP (951211.SGI.8.6.12.PATCH1502/JSP1789) id TAA03979 for ; Tue, 18 Aug 1998 19:22:12 -0400 Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 19:24:59 -0400 (EDT) From: Spidey X-Sender: beaupran@outpost.nada.org To: Questions=answers Subject: finger broken? 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 Hi I tried recently: finger $user finger: beaupran: no such user hmmm. I am. I am a user. 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? Spidey How 'bout a little ride through your own world? http://www.JSP.UMontreal.CA/~beaupran/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message