finger/tcp

finger/tcp provides a way to query for account information on a machine.

      S: (Connected>
      C: name
      S: (Return information about accounts 
          that machine name or 
          Fullname that matches name)

Also known as the NAME protocol.

I found one source, but didn't look all that hard... this one is in perl Here

Berkeley fingerd

The original RFC-742

Reference Person

David Zimmerman dpz@rutgers.edu