The Basics Of The Finger Command On Linux

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@joserobjr7010 Ай бұрын

WHAT IS THIS THUMBNAIL DT

@interests357 Ай бұрын

I laughed so hard when reading it 🤣🤣🤣🤣

@QuebnQ Ай бұрын

Please don't finger Linux users.

@pablofreitasmachado8076 Ай бұрын

What if they like it? Or even request it?

@ninetydirectory3798 Ай бұрын

It's finger time~

@neilpatrickhairless Ай бұрын

Speak for yourself 🥵

@aurorasphere Ай бұрын

alias please="sudo" please finger user

@penguin86bitals Ай бұрын

\*Do not finger the androids picture\*

@MichaelChin1994 Ай бұрын

So, in summary, fingering is an intimate and personal way for users to interact with each other. Neat!

@mohammedF976 Ай бұрын

What a thumbnail DT, what on earth have u just done? 💀

@pablofreitasmachado8076 Ай бұрын

Exactly what he meant to.

@SeymourButts-yg3gy Ай бұрын

Seems like he changed it.

@Bonez0r Ай бұрын

Now I'm curious, what was in the thumbnail?

@mohammedF976 Ай бұрын

@@Bonez0r Nah Lets not expose him after he exposed himself already 😂

@interests357 Ай бұрын

I laughed so hard when reading it 🤣🤣🤣🤣

@vranigavrani Ай бұрын

Some very naughty Linux instructions. That was really wild thumbnail.

@LinuxRenaissance Ай бұрын

Which one was it? It’s just a laptop now

@chrislinuxtutorials5283 Ай бұрын

@@LinuxRenaissance He was talking about the "How to finger Linux users" part. If this reaches you, I want to congratulate you on your awesome videos!

@LinuxRenaissance Ай бұрын

@@chrislinuxtutorials5283 thank you very much, sir! I appreciate it. As for thumbnail, I also have a "finger" video with a funky thumbnail, but mine clearly isn't provocative enough because nobody reacted to it :D

@acmethunder Ай бұрын

There needs to be an annual award for the best click bait title, because this just won. Next year too.

@boy_deploy Ай бұрын

Today I learned how to finger. Thanks DT for teaching me how to finger

@bobbyfried7478 Ай бұрын

i learned how to finger in high school....no PC required.

@LinuxRenaissance Ай бұрын

I must applaud your community, DT, they are awesome! If I made a finger video I would get very few comments 😅

@besnikrrustemi Ай бұрын

Hey DT, that's a really nice looking Waybar config that you've got there. Not only have you jumped to Wayland/Hyprland but you also jumped to a more modern look on the bar compared to what we had on Qtile. A nice general update overall.

@MightyThorus Ай бұрын

DT: finger Everyone else: w, who, last

@jr_Linux Ай бұрын

dude i haven't heard of some of these names, thats interesting to learn something new.

@Jeff_Seely Ай бұрын

Hey man thanks the trip down memory lane! When I first installed SUSE back in 96, it was there!!! We have some older Solaris boxes st work and I am type the command on one of those machinesjust to see if it is on there.

@granturismo3wasgreat Ай бұрын

Let's go now i can finger everything using linux 🤑

@ohwow2074 Ай бұрын

So in a nutshell, don't finger each other. It's not secure.

@marcempunkt9737 Ай бұрын

just for the title i give the video a like

@andychen7016 Ай бұрын

Gotta use “sudo finger” whenever I want to finger as administrator.

@jcortest Ай бұрын

Love to see you using hyprland. I also started last week.

@UltraZelda64 Ай бұрын

I didn't know finger fell out of use. I never really had much use for it myself. Earlier this year though I did think it was odd that finger wasn't installed by default, and online searches led to pinky as being some sort of replacement. I guess that's why.

@hexisXz Ай бұрын

Man finger

@occultsupport Ай бұрын

amazing

@MthaMenMon Ай бұрын

man finger | more

@SirBrakeMagic Ай бұрын

Thats one way to get me to click a vid

@MasterPuppets206 Ай бұрын

Thanks for getting to the point ☝😊

@rothbardfreedom Ай бұрын

If this video was about music, it would be teaching how to finger A-Minor on the guitar.

@glics Ай бұрын

Gonna have to `alias diddy=dd`

@yasirrakhurrafat1142 Ай бұрын

@@glics nabruhh..

@vmisev Ай бұрын

0:47 Hey, easy there - FreeBSD is in not larping Unix as some other systems do, so of course that FreeBSD has finger(1) in the base, even in the latest release 😉 BTW, finger(1) didn’t originate on Unix, it was adopted from WAITS/TOPS-10 for DEC PDP-6/PDP-10 and it was written by great Les Earnest who unfortunately passed away 2 months ago at the age of 93.

@320k Ай бұрын

OpenBSD and NetBSD have it, too. Thanks DT for reminding me to set my .plan

@4ohf Ай бұрын

coreutils comes with pinky, a light weight finger. It seems to do just about the same thing. I think they named it pinky because it's the smallest finger or something like that

@arztareef Ай бұрын

i died reading the thumbnail

@runfromnuke Ай бұрын

Cheeky thumbnail, DT!

@danihp9238 Ай бұрын

It is very useful if you have a server with users loaded from LDAP and not in the local system, in that way you can see the details of that users (group, permission etc) directly from the system. In the new red hat releases the finger command is replaced now with the pinky command that does quite the same.

@alex-fddz Ай бұрын

How to wh... that escalated quickly.

@andbenn Ай бұрын

Ah, memories. We'd finger friends who were at other universities, and if they were online, we'd send them a talk request and have a split screen chat window. Some .plans that people had got pretty informational - with ascii art being quite popular.

@hrmf32 Ай бұрын

what video editor would you use on Linux to edit youtube videos? ones on repositories...

@dimlylitcorners Ай бұрын

Kinda wish to reinplement/reimagine secure & private & self-hosted some of the basic social commands like who, talk, finger, chat, etc… perhaps even reinvent a spam-free, secure, private alternativea for usenet and email (eg: over i2p) bc we need some secure private spam-free store and forward delay/disconnection tolerant protocols?

@terrydaktyllus1320 Ай бұрын

"Kinda wish to reinplement/reimagine secure & private & self-hosted some of the basic social commands like who, talk, finger, chat, etc…" I am not sure what points you are making there. "Secure" means "not able to be intercepted by a third party" which, in computer terms, means encryption and there's nothing stopping you running those commands over a VPN or an SSH tunnel if that is what you want to do. These are also not "private" commands given they provide information about other users across a network or allow easy communication with them. Ultimately, whether or not anyone deploys such tools and how securely they deploy them is ultimately down to what benefits they provide over what risk is introduced by using them. You could easily argue that social media apps already provide the features that these tools provide, so why do you need more of them? "perhaps even reinvent a spam-free, secure, private alternativea for usenet and email (eg: over i2p)" i2p is not a spam prevention protocol, its main purpose is to provide anonymity. Usenet and email are "usable by anyone" protocols which means that the people using them can either post relevant information or post spam. To distinguish between the two is not straightforward and is therefore done using a completely separate "rules engine" that forwards good information but filters out bad information. How big a rules engine you need depends on where you use the protocols - if you use them in a trusted private network where all of your users are sensible people, you may not need spam filtering. Therefore why would build such into a protocol itself? "bc we need some secure private spam-free store" I don't understand what that point even means. "and forward delay/disconnection tolerant protocols?" TCP/IP already provides such tolerance, as do applications like "screen" or "tmux" that will allow SSH session re-connection in the event of a disconnection. Even cookies in web browser sessions can be used to log a user back in to the same place they were when they last disconnected. Again, I don't know what point you are making here.

@itildude Ай бұрын

Alright DT. I'm not sure I can watch you anymore. You forgot the Oxford comma when you wrote your plan. 🙂

@luvvacupa2468 Ай бұрын

😀

@helidrones Ай бұрын

There has also been the write command to politely notify users before fingering them.

@MrAppleMASTER007 Ай бұрын

Hello! I really like your videos. It would be interesting to know about your phone. What OS is installed on it and what software do you use? What are you thinking about custom firmware like lineageOS?

@Sra4825 Ай бұрын

DT I don't recognize your Desktop Environment. What'd I miss?

@CreachterZ Ай бұрын

It’s there on AIX, as it should be. My servers have thousands of users.

@terrydaktyllus1320 Ай бұрын

If your servers have thousands of users then I assume you're in a corporate environment - in which case your corporate security team will probably have something to say about you running finger (and fingerd servers) across the network. Sure, you may be fine running finger on the localhost but I doubt firewalls will allow it to be used externally.

@ttutko Ай бұрын

I weep for the lack of the Oxford comma 😢

@AdrianosPapamarkou Ай бұрын

You are using Hyprland!!!

@dafoex Ай бұрын

I kinda feel like this would be useful still in a business card kind of way. People have contact information they want to share publicly, if you could finger someone to get an up-to-date vcard or something from a finger server... I'm not skilled enough to suggest a way to do it securely, I just think there could still be utility to it

@terrydaktyllus1320 Ай бұрын

No application is "secure" or "insecure" in of itself - it depends how and where you use it. These applications come from a point in time where users were in closed private networks running UNIX-based systems where there was a minimal chance of someone using personal information for nefarious purposes. So that is why they exist in the first place. Nowadays, you can extend a private network over the public Internet using VPN and / or tunneling and it might then create a case where such tools could still be used with a degree of safety - ultimately it comes down to the level of risk you're willing to accept in deploying any application that might provide some benefit to the users on your network. Social media applications like Facebook provide similar functions to what these tools do but the disadvantage of social media apps is they're controlled by third parties which means all user information is routed via their servers. That, in of itself, is additional risk. I work in cyber-security, primarily on Linux servers, and the first thing my clients request is that these tools, and any others that run "clear text" over the network, be disabled - and there's good reason for that. But that doesn't make the tools themselves bad because, again, it depends on what you need them for and how much risk you can accept when you use them.

@Jammet Ай бұрын

Are we like back in the 80s and 70s?😸

@davmbol Ай бұрын

Got sexual innuendo in DT thumbnails before gta6

@idlerdragons Ай бұрын

now thats what i call a video thumbnail

@pmccarthy001 Ай бұрын

Are there commands analogous to sfc and dism in Windows in Linux?

@terrydaktyllus1320 Ай бұрын

The issue is that I'm not prepared to do "homework" on a topic that I have no interest in, given I stopped using Windows when support for Windows 7 ended. What do the sfc and dism commands actually do in Windows?

@pmccarthy001 Ай бұрын

@@terrydaktyllus1320 Perhaps this is the wrong place for those who are preparing to move to Linux to seek guidance. I appreciate you clarifying that.

@terrydaktyllus1320 Ай бұрын

@@pmccarthy001 Or you could just explain what those Windows commands actually do to someone who has never used them, at which point I could then think of some Linux equivalents and give you the kind of response you are looking for. I can't ride a horse so you won't find me hanging around equestrianism channels on YT giving advice on horse riding that I am entirely unqualified to give. The same logic applies here. I think it's you that probably has an unreasonable level of expectation in here - ask me a Linux question, not a Windows one, and I'll give you the best advice that I can.

@ThaitopYT Ай бұрын

In normal Linux distro, I don't think it have those command because you can modified you system freely or you can just reinstall individual part separately if it broken for some reason. Don't know about Immutable Linux distro though but it make sense to have one.

@tylerdean980 Ай бұрын

That explains the look in Tux's eyes

@Tlyon16_boi Ай бұрын

3:12 No No, don't finger me.. no one should finger me

@chrisfromgreece-gr Ай бұрын

DT has no plans ! What are we gonna watch now ?

@MrJakeTucker Ай бұрын

I remember reading John Carmack's plan files in the 1990s on Blues News. Other game developers would also type up plan files.

@badwolf8112 Ай бұрын

That site is still up

@MrJakeTucker Ай бұрын

@@badwolf8112 I know. I'm still using it most days. I've never made an account to comment though.

@Fre1maurer Ай бұрын

Ah, i read about .plan files in Masters of Doom, a book about the early history of id software. They used these files to organize the team and to distribute work tasks. I always thought they meant some random text file hosted somwhere on the network with a *.plan file extension or something like that. I think they used it on these black NeXT Step boxes they used to develop Doom.

@terrydaktyllus1320 Ай бұрын

" I always thought they meant some random text file hosted somwhere on the network with a *.plan file extension or something like that." There's no reason you couldn't use it that way - you can easily give multiple users permissions to write to a single file, whether locally or on a remote system.

@Bob-b4j1b Ай бұрын

echo 👍

@uuu12343 Ай бұрын

That title is...something Shenanigans and Tomfoolery

@Saurabh_Kushwah Ай бұрын

I think *pinky* is more simple and installed by default

@FlooferLand Ай бұрын

(Pinky and the Brain theme starts playing)

@chessnord7934 Ай бұрын

Best clickbait award!!!

@donaldmickunas8552 Ай бұрын

The finger command doesn't exist in the Void Linux Repository.

@terrydaktyllus1320 Ай бұрын

It might be in a package called "netkit-fingerd" (as it is on Gentoo) or may just be in a full "netkit" package.

@MegaICS Ай бұрын

Kid named Finger:

@jr_Linux Ай бұрын

that was funny i looked up the tldr on finger but yea it didn't work lol. i had to go look it up.

@cybernit3 Ай бұрын

Didn't in the early days of UNIX they used finger to see how many coke cans were left in the Coke Machine at then University? I remember reading that years ago, was sort of funny and neat.

@interests357 Ай бұрын

Who knew you could FINGER USERS on Linux? 👀👀😂😂

@Reaper-jr7sz Ай бұрын

The thumbnail 👁️👄👁️

@amorphousblob2721 Ай бұрын

You are wrong about one thing: "finger" is installed by default on BSD systems. Even OpenBSD has it. It was removed from Linux because the Linux community has been infiltrated by people whose goal it is to completely de-UNIXify Linux and turn it into BeOS. There are a lot of other commands you'll find missing-by-default in modern Linux distros that used to be there, including commands that are specified in POSIX, such as ed(1), bc(1), and at(1), among many others. You don't even get a POSIX-compliant system anymore when you install Debian, and if you write a shell script assuming POSIX, it's not guaranteed to run on a Debian system. It wouldn't surprise me if people like Lennart Poettering want to get rid of the shell and terminals altogether. You're also wrong about what "finger" does when called with no arguments. It doesn't print information about who you're logged in as, it prints information about _all_ _logged-in_ _users_ . Your particular use-case, typical of desktop usage, happens to have only one user. Back in the day it was common for dozens of users to be logged into a single computer running UNIX.

@SashikaSandeepa Ай бұрын

Do what?

@cybersean3000 Ай бұрын

Finger was first developed in 1977. In the mid 1990's, someone had a vending machine on the internet. One could use Finger to access the machine and get information, such as the current inventory of each tray. It is not included in in many Linux distro's because it can be a huge security problem for someone who does not know how to secure the Finger protocol (well known port 79).