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[Bug 766862] Re: remote finger no longer work, local finger limited (pinky vs finger)

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Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 16:41:14 -0000
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** Attachment added: "debdiff incorporating simple finger patch."
https://bugs.launchpad.net/oem-priority/oneiric/+bug/766862/+attachment/2470137/+files/patch

** Description changed:

+ SRU Justificaiton
+ -----------------
+
+ Impact:
+
+ This update allows remote finger to work if a proper finger client is
+ installed.
+
+ Fix:
+
+ A minor code change that has gnome-nettool attempt to use the 'finger'
+ before falling back to 'pinky' instead of vice-versa.
+
+ Patch:
+
+ The changes have been applied to gnome-nettool git master branch in
+ commit 89e0bb648e9e8bd96a5eb5e0284abf74fc244c95. I've attached a
+ debdiff in comment #5.
+
+ Regression Potential:
+
+ There should be very little potential for regression.
+
+ Test Case:
+
+ * Install finger (sudo apt-get install finger)
+ * Run gnome-nettool
+ * Select the 'finger' tab.
+ * Enter the hostname of a machine running a finger server and the username of a properly configured account.
+
+ gnome-nettool should display the finger information returned by the
+ remote host.
+
+ ------------------------
+
+
Binary package hint: gnome-nettool

This is a duplicated entry for the gnome upstream bug#611408

Simon Paillard [reporter] 2010-02-28 15:20:55 UTC

Hello,

This has been reported intially in http://bugs.debian.org/550991

Remote finger no longer works.
It seems the switch from finger to pinky caused a regression in finger feature.

> gnome-nettool's finger functionality does not work. If I try to finger
> bmc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx or amu@xxxxxxxxxxxx (or anyone else, for
> that matter), it sends no packets, and produces only the output:
- >
+ >
> Login Name TTY Idle When Where

This seems to be a regression since 2.22.1-1, after the switch to pinky
as finger program, introduced after the resolution of:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=549588
commit a9eaa17cdae8563e19e1afc2aebe64e534a4da85
2008-12-04 02:56 German Poo-Caamano Fixed #549588. Try to use pinky
instead of finger. Use finger as fallback.

$ pinky amu@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Login Name TTY Idle When Where

It doesn't seem pinky is able to do the same job as finger does.

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Title:
remote finger no longer work, local finger limited (pinky vs finger)

Status in GNOME Nettool:
Unknown
Status in OEM Priority Project:
Confirmed
Status in OEM Priority Project oneiric series:
Fix Committed
Status in “gnome-nettool” package in Ubuntu:
Fix Committed

Bug description:
SRU Justificaiton
-----------------

Impact:

This update allows remote finger to work if a proper finger client is
installed.

Fix:

A minor code change that has gnome-nettool attempt to use the 'finger'
before falling back to 'pinky' instead of vice-versa.

Patch:

The changes have been applied to gnome-nettool git master branch in
commit 89e0bb648e9e8bd96a5eb5e0284abf74fc244c95. I've attached a
debdiff in comment #5.

Regression Potential:

There should be very little potential for regression.

Test Case:

* Install finger (sudo apt-get install finger)
* Run gnome-nettool
* Select the 'finger' tab.
* Enter the hostname of a machine running a finger server and the username of a properly configured account.

gnome-nettool should display the finger information returned by the
remote host.

------------------------

Binary package hint: gnome-nettool