Bug 1218794

Summary: finger still wants to use/read /var/run/utmp
Product: [openSUSE] openSUSE Tumbleweed Reporter: Peter Sütterlin <P.Suetterlin>
Component: OtherAssignee: Petr Gajdos <pgajdos>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact: E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity: Minor    
Priority: P5 - None CC: snwint
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Description Peter Sütterlin 2024-01-14 17:02:57 UTC 
lux:E% finger pit
finger: /var/run/utmp: No such file or directory

Not that I assume anyone still uses it(*), but as it is an official TW package (finger-1.3-169.5.x86_64) that should probably be fixed, or the package removed?


(*) nor do I - finger came up during a "history-discussion" and I merely tried it to find out if it still exists.... ;^>
Comment 1 Thorsten Kukuk 2024-01-15 09:44:08 UTC 
The successor of "finger" is "pinky", and that tool works.

But I agree, the sources for finger are untouched since about 17 years, I don't want to know how many bugs/problems are there in the code and the finger protocol shouldn't be used anymore for security reasons, too.

I vote for dropping "finger", at least from Factory.
Comment 2 Petr Gajdos 2024-01-15 11:23:47 UTC 
Only installation-images buildrequire it. Steffen will remove it.
Comment 3 Petr Gajdos 2024-01-15 11:25:07 UTC 
(In reply to Petr Gajdos from comment #2)
> Only installation-images buildrequire it. Steffen will remove it.

I mean: Steffen will remove the requirement (thanks!). I will drop finger then.
Comment 5 Petr Gajdos 2024-01-16 09:02:11 UTC 
installation-images without finger requirement are in Factory yet.

finger delete request:
https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/1138815
Comment 6 Petr Gajdos 2024-01-19 09:03:41 UTC 
The delete request was accepted.