[Bug 766862] [NEW] remote finger no longer work, local finger limited (pinky vs finger)

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SRU Justificaiton
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Impact:

This update allows remote finger to work if a proper finger client is
installed.

Fix:

A minor code change that has gnome-nettool attempt to use the 'finger'
before falling back to 'pinky' instead of vice-versa.

Patch:

The changes have been applied to gnome-nettool git master branch in
commit 89e0bb648e9e8bd96a5eb5e0284abf74fc244c95.  I've attached a
debdiff in comment #5.

Regression Potential:

There should be very little potential for regression.

Test Case:

* Install finger (sudo apt-get install finger)
* Run gnome-nettool
* Select the 'finger' tab.
* Enter the hostname of a machine running a finger server and the username of a properly configured account.

gnome-nettool should display the finger information returned by the
remote host.

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Binary package hint: gnome-nettool

This is a duplicated entry for the gnome upstream bug#611408

Simon Paillard [reporter] 2010-02-28 15:20:55 UTC

Hello,

This has been reported intially in http://bugs.debian.org/550991

Remote finger no longer works.
It seems the switch from finger to pinky caused a regression in finger feature.

> gnome-nettool's finger functionality does not work.  If I try to finger
> bmc at crustytoothpaste.ath.cx or amu at monk.mit.edu (or anyone else, for
> that matter), it sends no packets, and produces only the output:
>
>   Login    Name                 TTY      Idle   When             Where

This seems to be a regression since 2.22.1-1, after the switch to pinky
as finger program, introduced after the resolution of:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=549588
commit a9eaa17cdae8563e19e1afc2aebe64e534a4da85
2008-12-04 02:56 German Poo-Caamano  Fixed #549588. Try to use pinky
instead of finger. Use finger as fallback.

$ pinky amu at monk.mit.edu
Login    Name                 TTY      Idle   When         Where

It doesn't seem pinky is able to do the same job as finger does.

** Affects: gnome-nettool
     Importance: Unknown
         Status: Unknown

** Affects: oem-priority
     Importance: Medium
     Assignee: Chris Van Hoof (vanhoof)
         Status: Confirmed

** Affects: oem-priority/oneiric
     Importance: Medium
     Assignee: Ayan George (ayan)
         Status: Fix Committed

** Affects: gnome-nettool (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Medium
     Assignee: Ayan George (ayan)
         Status: Fix Committed

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remote finger no longer work, local finger limited (pinky vs finger) 
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/766862
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