in.xfingerd - Finger to LDAP/X.500 gateway daemon
SYNOPSIS
/usr/sbin/in.xfingerd [-f filterfile] [-i] [-l] [-t tem
platefile] [-c rdncount] [-x hostname] [-b searchbase] [-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:
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.xfin
gerd 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_DAEMON 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.
Specify an alternate port on which the ldap server
is listening.
-b searchbase
Specify an alternate search base for queries.
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
finger(1) ldap(3), ldap_getfilter(3), inetd(8),
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
OpenLDAP is developed and maintained by The OpenLDAP Pro
ject (http://www.openldap.org/). OpenLDAP is derived from
University of Michigan LDAP 3.3 Release.
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