LysKOM Protocol A

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Who Information

        Who-Info-Old ::=
              ( person                  :       Pers-No;
                working-conference      :       Conf-No;
                what-am-i-doing         :       HOLLERITH;
              )

        Who-Info ::=
              ( person                  :       Pers-No;
                working-conference      :       Conf-No;
                session                 :       Session-No;
                what-am-i-doing         :       HOLLERITH;
                username                :       HOLLERITH;
              )

        Who-Info-Ident ::=
              ( person                  :       Pers-No;
                working-conference      :       Conf-No;
                session                 :       Session-No;
                what-am-i-doing         :       HOLLERITH;
                username                :       HOLLERITH;
                hostname                :       HOLLERITH;
                ident-user              :       HOLLERITH;
              )

These structures are used to retrieve information on who is currently using LysKOM. All the requests using these types are obsolete, but Who-Info is used by async-i-am-on (see async-i-am-on).

The fields of Who-Info-Old are

person: The person the information is about.
working-conference: The conference the person is currently in.
what-am-i-doing: A client-supplied string saying what the person is doing.

The fields of Who-Info are

person: The person the information is about.
working-conference: The conference the person is currently in.
session: The person's session number.
what-am-i-doing: A client-supplied string saying what the person is doing.
username: The name of the "real" user constructed from hostname and ident-user (see below) and information from the client.

The fields of Who-Info-Ident are

person: The person the information is about.
working-conference: The conference the person is currently in.
session: The person's session number.
what-am-i-doing: A client-supplied string saying what the person is doing.
username: The name of the "real" user constructed from hostname and ident-user.
hostname: The host the connection originated at.
ident-user: The user name according to the Ident dæmon at the user's machine or "unknown" if Ident was not used.