Displaying information about all users logged in to a host

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Use this procedure to view information about all users logged in to a remote host.

To display information about all users logged in to a remote host:

  1. Log in to the remote host with which you want to communicate.
  2. To display information about all users logged in to host alcatraz, type: 
    finger @alcatraz
    Information similar to the following is displayed: 
    brown    console  Mar 15 13:19
smith    pts0     Mar 15 13:01
jones    tty0    Mar 15 13:01

User brown is logged in at the console, user smith is logged in from a pseudo teletype line pts0, and user jones is logged in from a tty0. Your system administrator can set up your system so that the finger command works differently. If you encounter any problems using the finger command, contact your system administrator.