IN.XFINGERD(8C)IN.XFINGERD(8C)NAMEin.xfingerd - Finger to LDAP/X.500 gateway daemon
SYNOPSIS
/usr/libexec/in.xfingerd [-f filterfile] [-i] [-l] [-t templatefile]
[-c rdncount] [-x hostname] [-b searchbase] [-p port]
DESCRIPTIONin.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/libexec/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.
-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 ALSOfinger(1)ldap(3), ldap_getfilter(3), inetd(8),
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.
OpenLDAP 2.1.X 20 August 2000 IN.XFINGERD(8C)