fingering (idea)

Fingering: The act of using the finger command to gather information about users on a system:

[ixs@unixserver ixs]$ finger ixs@otherserver
Login: ixs                     Name:
Directory: /home/ixs           Shell: /bin/bash
On since Sat Nov 4 12:24 (CET)  on pts/3 from unixserver
Mail last read Sat Nov 4 17:03 2000 (CET)
No Plan.
[ixs@unixserver ixs]$