A simple daemon for responding with user-supplied information to
finger requests. Does not run any external
programs but rather reads only specific files from $HOME/.local/share/digitd/ and responds with
their contents.
$ task build && sudo ./digitd.bin 79If you want debug output or to debug the app, use task build_debug instead of task build.
The debug level will be set to Debug with the former which will make it easier to see what is
happening in the application.
If you want to jump straight into lldb after building, use task debug. The port for this will
be 1079 instead and this is meant mostly for usage with, for example,
netcat, i.e. diagnosis of potential issues and stepping
through what is going on in response to specific requests.
When a query comes in there are three files that are read for different pieces of information.
This file could contain basic information about the user, perhaps where they work and with what.
This could contain information about the projects that a user is working on in perhaps a less fast-moving sense.
This file is meant to contain a user's plan for a shorter timeframe and perhaps more specifically what they will be doing in terms of their projects or maybe even just life in general. It could be treated as a journal of sorts.
A good example of this in the context of someone journaling about their work and company is John Carmack's plan files at Id Software.
The daemon will read $HOME/.local/share/digitd/users for what the user directory information
should look like. Note that if you run this as root it'll be read from
/root/.local/share/digitd/users.