====== Finger Client ======

The Synchronet Finger Client module (''[[dir:exec]]/finger.js'') supports the [[wp>Finger]] protocol over TCP ([[RFC>1288|RFC 1288]]) for the purposes of querying information about users of remote systems.

It is normally available for use by remote BBS ([[server:Terminal]] server) users from the Chat menu:

<file>
┌───────────────────┐
│ Chat Command Menu │
└───────────────────┘
████████████████████ Join a Chat ███████████████████████ ████ Toggles██████████
█                                                 █                           █
█ J Join/initiate multinode chat                  █ D Allow paging off/on     █
█ P Join/initiate private node to node chat       █ A Activity alerts off/on  █
█ C Chat with the sysop                           █ S Split screen pvt chat   █
█ T Talk with the system Guru (Artificial Person) █───────────────────────────█
█ F Finger (Query) a remote user or system        █                           █
</file>
...
<file>
Chat: F

User (user@hostname): digital.nospam@vert.synchro.net
User: Digital Man #1
From: Riverside County, CA                 Handle: WX6YYZ
Shell: default                             Editor: fseditor
Last login Fri Dec 29 2017 09:43 pm PST
via SSH from vert [71.95.196.34]
Plan:
See http://vert.synchro.net/todolist.ssjs        
</file>

===== Disable =====
If you wish to disable this module (prevent users from issuing Finger requests from your BBS), set ''finger=false'' in the ''[chat_sec]'' section of your ''[[dir:ctrl]]/[[config:modopts.ini]]'' file.

===== See Also =====
  * [[:service:finger|Finger Service]]
  * [[:module:|module index]]