[SOLVED] "finger user1" pointing user1 and user2 as well why so?

manalisharmabe · 04-26-2013, 04:48 AM

Hello guys,

on Solaris 10 os, I have this problem,

When I finger one user it points to 2 users why so,

Code:

-bash-3.2$ finger machova
Login name: machovp                     In real life: raju Machova (LIB FinAcct User)
Directory: /users/cz/182/machovp        Shell: /usr/bin/ksh
Never logged in.
No unread mail
No Plan.

Login name: machova                     In real life: ram Machova (Liberec Production User)
Directory: /users/cz/182/machova        Shell: /usr/bin/ksh
Never logged in.
No unread mail
No Plan.

However their home directory is diferent.

Code:

-bash-3.2$ grep machova /etc/passwd
machova:x:4828:102:ram Machova (System1 Production User):/users/cz/182/machova:/usr/bin/ksh
-bash-3.2$ grep machovp /etc/passwd
machovp:x:3689:102:raju Machova (System2 FinAcct User):/users/cz/182/machovp:/usr/bin/ksh
-bash-3.2$ sudo ls -ltra /users/cz/182/machova

Will this cause any issue? first tell me,

I checked their respective home directories the owner and group owner are proper.

Please advise.

Thanks,

Manali.

chrism01 · 04-26-2013, 05:09 AM

See http://linux.die.net/man/1/finger

Quote:

-m' Prevent matching of user names. User is usually a login name; however, matching will also be done on the users' real names, unless the -m option is supplied. All name matching performed by finger is case insensitive.

TenTenths · 04-26-2013, 05:09 AM

finger has matched two users based on their second name (Machova)

From the finger man page:

Code:

User is usually a login name; however, matching will also be done on the users' real names, unless the -m option is supplied.  All name matching performed by finger is case insensitive.

So finger is reporting what you asked it for.

manalisharmabe · 04-26-2013, 09:58 AM

Thanks a lot guys!
I got it, use -m option.

but still have one question as why the user ram which was not even created on system ,
when did finger ram was diplaying raju loginname