Hello,

This has been reported intially in http://bugs.debian.org/550991

Remote finger no longer works.
It seems the switch from finger to pinky caused a regression in finger feature.

> gnome-nettool's finger functionality does not work.  If I try to finger
> bmc@crustytoothpaste.ath.cx or amu@monk.mit.edu (or anyone else, for
> that matter), it sends no packets, and produces only the output:
> 
>   Login    Name                 TTY      Idle   When             Where

This seems to be a regression since 2.22.1-1, after the switch to pinky
as finger program, introduced after the resolution of:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=549588
commit a9eaa17cdae8563e19e1afc2aebe64e534a4da85
2008-12-04 02:56 German Poo-Caamano  Fixed #549588. Try to use pinky
instead of finger. Use finger as fallback.

$ pinky amu@monk.mit.edu
Login    Name                 TTY      Idle   When         Where

It doesn't seem pinky is able to do the same job as finger does.