[lug] finger

[David]

I tried to use finger and it did not work, I could not even finger
myself: (I do not have a ~/.nofinger file)

Blackhand dajo ~ finger dajo at localhost
[localhost]
finger: connect: Connection refused
Blackhand dajo ~ 

I guess that finger is a security problem and is disabled for that
reason.  But I thought a posting would be worthwhile: why does finger
not work, how do I make it work, etc.

Originally, I "just" wanted to confirm a username on a remote
machine.  How do I do that, please?

dajo