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From: davecb@yunexus.UUCP (David Collier-Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: Finding login ids
Keywords: login, id, uid, user, address
Message-ID: <7435@yunexus.UUCP>
Date: 9 Feb 90 19:26:14 GMT
References: <48864496.19c13@locust.engin.umich.edu>
Organization: York U. Computing Services
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leviatan@caen.engin.umich.edu (David Disser) writes:
>Is there any standard convention for finding a specific person's id if you
>know the address?  I finally dug up the right addresses for a few friends
>at various universities, but I still have to find what ids to mail to.
>Thanks in advance.

Yup:
	(echo "$person"; echo) | telnet $machine 79"

will get you something like
yunexus:/ycs/davecb> telnet nexus 79
Trying...
Connected to nexus.yorku.ca.
Escape character is '^]'.
davecb
Login name: davecb                      In real life: David Collier-Brown
Directory: /ycs/davecb                  Shell: /usr/local/bin/sylogin
On since Feb  8 08:50:09 on ttyp0 from icarus:0.0
3 hours 57 minutes Idle Time
New mail received Fri Feb  9 14:16:19 1990;
  unread since Fri Feb  9 14:08:41 1990
Project:   My usual plan: appear to do nothing.
Plan:
Primary:
        summarize RFP bumpf
        think about criterias & rankings
Secondary:
        Try to do "managment by exception":

It's in "man 8 finger"

--dave
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