finger-daemon for those so extraverted that they feel they have to hand out something while not wanting to reveal security-relevant info. Started out as a patch to the BSD implementation, but shares almost no code with it these days.

• Works with files/scripts rather than pw/GECOS-info:
  • optional site banner
  • optional reply to finger @
  • optional per-user reply
• All of the above can be readable (in which case the file's contents will get returned) or executable (in which case the script's output will be returned) files.
• Daemon will not return anything but those files (e.g. login times, directories, shells, etc.). If a per-user replay (~/.in.finger) does not exist, nothing (only the site-banner, if defined) is returned, same as for non-existant users. Thus, users will have to take conscious steps achieve net-wide visibility.
• Per-user script receives user for which it was called (enabling you to symlink to a generic reply script) and the caller's host-IP, host-name (if present), caller's ident (if obtainable), and long/short info flag most maximum flexibility. Script away!