in.xfingerd
is the LDAP/X.500 finger daemon. It runs from
inetd(8)
and translates
finger queries into LDAP queries or X.500 queries via LDAP.
It also understands
UFN-style names, so fingering something like "tim howes,umich,us@hostname"
will do a UFN search.
To arrange to have in.xfingerd started from inetd
add a line like this to your
/etc/inetd.conf(5)
file, or the equivalent:
For these changes to take effect with inetd, you will probably have
to send it it a HUP signal. See
inetd(8)
for more details.
OPTIONS
-f filterfile
Specify an alternate filter configuration file for use with the
ldap_getfilter(3)
facility, used by
in.xfingerd.
-i
Run in interactive mode. With this flag in.xfingerd can be
run from a terminal in "one shot" mode, reading the finger
request from standard input. This is useful for debugging.
-l
Disable logging of various status and errors to the LOG_DAEMON facility via
syslog(8).
Note that this flag turns OFF logging. The default is on.
-t templatefile
Specify an alternate template configuration file for use with the
ldap_init_templates(3)
facility, used by
BR in.xfingerd .
-c rdncount
Specify the number of DN components to show for the names and DN attributes
within entries matching the search.
-x hostname
Specify an alternate host on which the ldap server is running.
-p port
Specify an alternate port on which the ldap server is listening.
-b searchbase
Specify an alternate search base for queries.
NOTES
The default values for most of the things you can specify with
options are configured at compile time in the
include/ldapconfig.h.edit
include file. Also included there are various messages displayed
by the finger daemon when finding no matches, encountering errors, etc.
You should configure
ldapconfig.h.edit
for your site.
