Word: fingers
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...Finger" is another Unix command that givessimilar information. It reports the name of thelast computer a student used and when they usedit...
...unlikely that the "finger" commandwill be altered anytime soon...
...Some commands are so entrenched into Unix thatyou just can't remove them," Gwertzman said. "Inorder to verify some users, World Wide Web serversfinger the person accessing them and they won'twork if finger doesn't work...
...there is some functionality with the lastand finger command--it's useful to see if someonelogged in since you sent them e-mail to see ifthey got it," Tarr added. "I don't know what todo...
...although finger and last could be seen asan invasion of privacy, they were from days whenprivacy wasn't even an issue," Tarr says...