From: statix@yabbs
To: Thorwak@yabbs
Subject: re: finger script
Date: Sat Feb 19 10:33:31 1994
Thorwak:  a lot depends on how your version of finger parses the names
when it does comparisons against passwd entries, such as if you said: 
finger fred3027
finger dan
It would turn up fred3027 (a username match) and possibly all people who's
first or last names began with fred, and then fingering on dan would turn 
up a hit on a username of dan, or any first or last names beginning with 
dan, so with these two finger you could possibly get results such as:
username: fred3027      In real life: Dan Frederick
username: hath2876      In real life: Fred Hathenberg 
**** results from finger fred3027 ***
username: fred3027      In real life: Dan Frederick
username: dan           In real life: Theo Dan
username: litg4567      In real life: Danielle Litgo
If you want to just check on a specific username, most fingers support a
-m option to force username only matches, you may want to give that a try.

               -statix