Bug 2118

Summary:	finger doesn't check for exact matches unless -m is passed
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin.dahyabhai>
Component:	finger	Assignee:	Jay Turner <jturner>
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Version:	6.0	CC:	srevivo
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Description Nalin Dahyabhai 1999-04-11 05:03:50 UTC

Unless a user invokes finger with the '-m' switch, it doesn't
bother to check for an exact match for a user name using
getpwnam().  If the nsswitch module that contains the info
about that user doesn't provide a getpwent() function (like
hesiod), finger will always fail without that '-m' flag.
Whether this is actually a bug is debatable because the man
page isn't too clear on what should be done.  I'm about to
mail in a patch to fix this anyway.

------- Email Received From  Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin.ncsu.edu> 04/11/99 01:07 -------


------- Email Received From  Stepan Kasal <kasal.cas.cz> 05/10/99 08:56 -------

Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 1999-07-28 15:41:59 UTC

Fixed in finger-0.10-25. Thanks for the patches.