Name

who@ — prints the list of active users on a remote host.

Synopsis

who@ [host]

Description

who@ uses tcpclient(1) to connect to TCP port 11 on host and prints any data that it receives. It uses delcr(1) and cat(1) to remove CR (\015) and convert unprintable characters to a visible format.

If host is not supplied, who@ connects to the local host.

TCP port 11 is the well-known port for the Systat service. Some computers respond to connections on this port with a list of active users. For example, they may be running tcpserver -R -H -l0 0 11 who using tcpserver(1).

History

who@ was originally part of Daniel J. Bernstein's ucspi-tcp toolset in 1999.

Author

Original code and documentation by Daniel J. Bernstein. Documentation modernizations by Jonathan de Boyne Pollard.