#define his his/her
#define he he/she
#define him him/her

Wed Jun  7 19:05:43 PDT 1995: uploaded to silver
Wed Jun  7 21:39:38 PDT 1995: fixed display of entry from utmp
Sun Jun 11 13:35:23 PDT 1995: v0.7 minor cleanup
Wed Jun 14 09:33:46 PDT 1995: v0.8 minor cleanup
Fri Jun 23 01:12:15 PDT 1995: v0.9 more minor cleanup, fixed man pages
Fri Jun 23 07:50:41 PDT 1995: v0.91 changed unlisted number tag from L/U
                                    from Y/N, forgot to changed it in
                                    finger. fixed

		finger and chfn for coherent
		----------------------------

These programs provide for coherent a way for users to inquire about
other users on the system, and give a user a way to provide information
about himself to other users of the system.

If a user has not executed the chfn program and changed any of the his
defaults, the information provided by finger to an inquirer is a subset
of the user's information as stored in the file /etc/passwd. Once a user
executes the program chfn, giving new information for full name,
organization, and/or optional phone number, and optionally creates/edits
his .plan and .profile files, the new information will be available to
other users of your system.

The man pages supplied were ripped off from a similar distribution by
Brian D. Smith who had an address branching out from
sharkey.cc.umich.edu, but the programs are very different.

Unless changed in the sources and rebuilt, the file that holds the
extended info is /etc/finger.data. The entries in this file are created
on demand of the chfn program. You do not have to create this file, and
the entries are dynamically seeded from /etc/passwd and updated by chfn,
and read as necessary by finger. /etc/finger.data is (by default) owned
by root and has mode 600, so unprivileged users cannot get unlisted phone
numbers.

To install, log in as root (as the programs need to be suid bin), modify
the Makefile if necessary, type:
$ make
$ make install
$ make man

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