IN.XFINGERD (8)
Finger to LDAP/X.500 gateway daemon
SYNOPSIS
/usr/sbin/in.xfingerd [-f filterfile] [-i]
[-l] [-t templatefile] [-c rdncount] [-x hostname]
[-p port]
DESCRIPTION
in.xfingerd
is the LDAP/X.500 finger daemon. It runs from
inetd (8)
and translates
finger queries into LDAP queries or X.500 queries via LDAP.
It also understands
UFN-style names, so fingering something like "tim howes,umich,us@hostname"
will do a UFN search.
To arrange to have in.xfingerd started from inetd
add a line like this to your
/etc/inetd.conf (5)
file, or the equivalent:
tt
finger stream tcp nowait nobody /usr/sbin/in.xfingerd in.xfingerd
For these changes to take effect with inetd, you will probably have
to send it it a HUP signal. See
inetd (8)
for more details.
OPTIONS
-f filterfile
Specify an alternate filter configuration file for use with the
ldap_getfilter (3)
facility, used by
in.xfingerd .
-i
Run in interactive mode. With this flag in.xfingerd can be
run from a terminal in "one shot" mode, reading the finger
request from standard input. This is useful for debugging.
-l
Disable logging of various status and errors to the LOG_LOCAL4 facility via
syslog (8).
Note that this flag turns OFF logging. The default is on.
-t templatefile
Specify an alternate template configuration file for use with the
ldap_init_templates (3)
facility, used by
BR in.xfingerd .
-c rdncount
Specify the number of DN components to show for the names and DN attributes
within entries matching the search.
-x hostname
Specify an alternate host on which the ldap server is running.
-p port
Specify an alternate port on which the ldap server is listening.
NOTES
The default values for most of the things you can specify with
options are configured at compile time in the
include/ldapconfig.h.edit
include file. Also included there are various messages displayed
by the finger daemon when finding no matches, encountering errors, etc.
You should configure
ldapconfig.h.edit
for your site.
SEE ALSO
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
OpenLDAP
is developed and maintained by The OpenLDAP Project (http://www.openldap.org/).
OpenLDAP
is derived from University of Michigan LDAP 3.3 Release.
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