cfingerd

Configurable Finger Daemon

Cfingerd is a free and secure finger daemon replacement for standard finger daemons such as GNU fingerd or MIT fingerd. It can enable/disable finger service to individual users, rather than to all users on a given host. Cfingerd is able to respond to a finger request to a specified user by running a shell script (e.g., finger doorbell@mysite.mydomain might cause a sound file to be sent) rather than just a plain text file.

Features

• Highly configurable
• Distinction between local (trusted) and remote hosts
• Run scripts through files as nobody or as user
• Parse user files for variables and commands
• Hide users
• Search for strings in the passwd file
• Open user files as user (thus work with NFS)
• Log finger actions in user's logfiles
• Reject hosts according to config file
• Support fake users, run scripts for certain accounts
• Support for banner/footer
• Freely configurable response strings

ChangeLog for version 1.4.0