armstron@cs.arizona.edu (Jim Armstrong) (11/17/90)
Is there a simple way to do a remote finger to see if a user is logged on to any of group of client machines? For example, I know that user joe has accounts on a group of workstations client1, client2,...clientn for which the file server machine is called server. If I do finger joe@server it tells me only when he last logged into the server machine, which, in many cases, might be never. I could do n separate fingers, i.e. finger joe@client1, finger joe@client2,...finger joe@clientn, but this can be tedious if there are many different clients joe can log on to. What if I don't know how many clients there are? Or worse, what if I don't know the names of all the clients (some sites like to put numbers in the names of clients, others pick random names)? Is there an easier way? -- Jim Armstrong "The nonpayment and subsequent abuse of armstron@cs.arizona.edu socially powerless athletes is simply a {uunet|noao}!arizona!armstron form of modern-day slavery" --Rick Telander