Finger Client
The Synchronet Finger Client module (exec/finger.js
) supports the Finger protocol over TCP (RFC 1288) for the purposes of querying information about users of remote systems.
It is normally available for use by remote BBS (Terminal server) users from the Chat menu:
┌───────────────────┐ │ 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 █ █
...
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
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 ctrl/modopts.ini
file.