daemon
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The BSD `fingerd(8)`_ supports a command-line option, *-p* for specifying
a program to retrieve local system information. By default it will
use the local `finger(1)`_ program. This package installs a program
called :program:`pyfinger` to replace this. It does two things
differently,

  * Information about home directories, shells and last logins is
    not revealed.
  * It supports a *~/.foaf* file which should be in N3 format which
    is served for a request for *user.foaf@host*.

To use it simply put something like the following in */etc/inetd.conf*::

    finger  stream  tcp     nowait/3/10 nobody /usr/libexec/fingerd fingerd -s -p /somewhere/pyfinger
    finger  stream  tcp6    nowait/3/10 nobody /usr/libexec/fingerd fingerd -s -p /somewhere/pyfinger

.. _finger(1): http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=finger
.. _fingerd(8): http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=fingerd