It seems like, you would want a system that would do something like every
24 hours, finger all users, save this stuff into a file, and then, when
you want something, grep the file.
- Mike
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On Fri, 9 Apr 1999, Justin Wilson wrote:
JW>Date: Fri, 09 Apr 1999 15:57:34 -0500
JW>From: Justin Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
JW>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
JW>Subject: Passwd file and fingering Part2
JW>
JW> What I want to do is be able to search (finger) via criteria. For
JW>exapmle if I have a user like this:
JW>
JW>Login: bob Name: Bob Jones
JW>Directory: /home/bob Shell: /bin/bash
JW>Office Phone: 555-1212 Home Phone:555-1212
JW>On since Fri Apr 9 11:41 (EST) on ttyp1 from dial-win-usr-1--7
JW>Mail last read Fri Apr 9 15:31 1999 (EST)
JW>Project:
JW>http:/bob.bob.com
JW>
JW>Plan:
JW>Corporate Account
JW>
JW>
JW> When I finger Corpoarte it does not return anything. If I have a user
JW>with the username or Name Corporate, it will return these. what I am looking
JW>for is a way to "search" or finger the different things in the finger info.
JW>Things such as the .plan, .project or whatever. I want to be able to finger
JW>Corporate and have it come up with all the corporate users. I really do not
JW>want to have a huge long name such as:
JW>
JW>Login: bob Name: Bob Jones / Corporate account /
JW>Primary
JW>
JW> The whole reason behind this, is we want to periodically finger all
JW>"Corporate" accounts and have the info return every corporate account.
JW>Does this make a little better sense?
JW>
JW> Justin
JW>
JW>
JW>> Here is what I want to do:
JW>> Our server has a distinction between corprate users and personal
JW>> users. Each corporate account has additional emails, etc. I want to be able
JW>> to search users via about 4 different criteria. How can I accomplish this via
JW>> finger? I assume when you finger a user, it just looks at the username and
JW>> Real name. Is there a way to add more fields which finger recognizes? I
JW>> assume finger looks at the password file? Am I correct there?
JW>
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JW>Justin Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
JW>http://jsw.tctc.com ICQ#:3336804
JW>
