finger-ldap
===========

Pre-requisites
--------------

* libnss-ldap
* finger
* Perl 5.6
* Net::LDAP

Instructions
------------

To install, make sure you've already configured libnss-ldap.
finger-ldap expects libnss-ldap's configuration file to reside in
/etc/libnss-pam.conf and will read that to parse that for its
information.  In this way, NSS and finger will behave as you'd expect.

   Then, move your /usr/bin/finger binary to /usr/bin/finger.real.

   Ensure that you have Perl installed, and that the Net::LDAP Perl
module is also there.

   Now you can copy (or symlink) finger-ldap to /usr/bin/finger.  You
should now be able to perform full-name substring queries much faster
than you used to.  If not, make sure that the Global Variables section
of finger-ldap is correct for your system.

   Enjoy!

-- Simon Law <sfllaw@law.yi.org>  Sat, 17 Apr 2004 12:00:32 -0400
