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Discussion on: Differences between `whoami`, `who` and `w` - Linux Tips

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Replies for: It used to be used all the time, but it's fallen out of favour. It's insecure, it was a plain-text client-server system so you could say finger ben...

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I see, "being able to query remote hosts" this would be useful in some cases, gonna read more on it, thank you Ben :D