[389-users] Finger slow and optimizing performance

[Nalin Dahyabhai]

On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 02:14:06PM -0600, Rich Megginson wrote:
> This is not a good search anyway - the client is basically asking for  
> all entries that match objectClass=posixAccount which could be thousands  
> or more - what does the client intend to do with all of those entries?

The finger command also tries to match your query against the first or
last name of a user, as stored in the GECOS field of user entries.  On
Fedora and derived systems (including RHEL), this part of its function
can be turned off with the -m switch.

HTH,

Nalin