Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!van-bc!ubc-cs!alberta!atha!lyndon
From: lyndon@cs.AthabascaU.CA (Lyndon Nerenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: He's so smart (Was: Re: Finding login ids) FLAMES!!
Keywords: login, id, uid, user, address
Message-ID: <1694@aurora.AthabascaU.CA>
Date: 21 Feb 90 20:08:55 GMT
References: <48864496.19c13@locust.engin.umich.edu> <7435@yunexus.UUCP> <489@harald.UUCP>
Organization: Athabasca University
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In article <489@harald.UUCP> jba@harald.ruc.dk (Jan B. Andersen) writes:
>>>Is there any standard convention for finding a specific person's id if you
>>>know the address?

>Please read the question again!! David doesn't know the value of 'person'

Hmm ... I don't know the mailbox address for "Lyndon Nerenberg"
although I know he logs in to a machine called aurora. Let's
try Dave's idea. Finger knows how to match on name, so lets try
a finger on Lyndon's last name:

% finger nerenberg@aurora
[aurora.AthabascaU.CA]
Login name: lyndon    			In real life: Lyndon Nerenberg
Directory: /nfs/aurora2/lyndon      	Shell: /usr/local/bin/bash
On since Feb 21 12:43:26 on ttyp1 from auboe.AthabascaU
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Plan:
By day, mild mannered CDLDC contract programmer;
By night, blues guitar playing packet radio maniac!
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Far out! It worked, just like Dave said.

>*pzzzzttt*

*pzzzzttt* yourself!

-- 
Lyndon Nerenberg  VE6BBM / Computing Services / Athabasca University
     {alberta,decwrl}!atha!lyndon || lyndon@cs.AthabascaU.CA

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