From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 19 11:45:41 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA02815 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 19 Aug 1998 11:45:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from outpost.nada.org (derby.JSP.UMontreal.CA [132.204.45.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA02772 for ; Wed, 19 Aug 1998 11:45:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from beaupran@jsp.umontreal.ca) Received: from localhost (beaupran@localhost) by outpost.nada.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id OAA23570; Wed, 19 Aug 1998 14:47:41 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from beaupran@jsp.umontreal.ca) X-Authentication-Warning: outpost.nada.org: beaupran owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 14:47:41 -0400 (EDT) From: Spidey X-Sender: beaupran@outpost.nada.org To: Doug White 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 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/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message