finger bug

Michael I. Lichter lichter at cs.ucla.edu
Sat May 26 17:41:50 AEST 1990


Hi.  There appears to be a minor problem with SunOS 4.0.3 finger.  This
probably isn't a generic BSD problem, because it works OK on our 4.3BSD
IBM RTs.  Also, it may be fixed in SunOS 4.1.  Anyway, the problem is that
if (a) you try to "finger <name>" and (b) <name> is the last name of more
than one user, and (c) there exists an account with the login <name>, then
only the information for the account with login <name> will appear.  If
<name> is a first name and there is an account with that name, there does
not seem to be a problem.  I don't know what happens if <name> is one
user's last name and and another user's firstname - I haven't checked.  

We have source, so patches will be gratefully accepted.  Thanks.

Michael



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