userlist command not found

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

userlist: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: userlist: command not found

Solutions to userlist: command not found

How To Fix userlist: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu userlist is provided by cfingerd package.

cfingerd is:

This is a free replacement for standard finger daemons such as GNU fingerd and MIT fingerd. Cfingerd can enable/disable finger services to individual users, rather than to all users on a given host. It is able to respond to a finger request to a specified user by running a shell script (e.g., finger [email protected] might cause a sound file to be sent) rather than just a plain text file.

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install cfingerd

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install cfingerd.

sudo apt -y install cfingerd

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install cfingerd

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix userlist command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.