pyfingerd 0.4.3

finger (RFC 1288) server-side daemon.

finger is both a protocol and a utility to get the information and status from a user on a distant machine. It was standardized in RFC 742 in 1977, then in RFC 1288 in 1991, and has been abandoned since.

While describing the protocol in a blog post of mine, I wanted to implement this protocol for fun, but didn’t want to present the real information about the users on my server, so I made this to present some fictional information in order to be able to tell a story through finger.

You can find more information on the pyfingerd homepage.

What is left to do

For further versions:

• add a live action interface (where a port/socket is opened and updates are read and applied through it).

• make external commands or actions from a scenario, to make it more believable! although this might need a switch from outside the scenario to be sure this behaviour is wanted (e.g. a CLI/env option).

• add a Win32 native interface.