diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
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+++ b/.gitignore
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+*.pyc
+*.db
+.env
+*.log
diff --git a/banner b/banner
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+++ b/banner
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+                                                               
+ mmmmm                               mmmm    m""    m""    m   
+ #    # m   m  mmmmm  mmmmm         m"  "m mm#mm  mm#mm    #   
+ #mmmm" #   #     m"     m"         #    #   #      #      #   
+ #    # #   #   m"     m"           #    #   #      #      "   
+ #mmmm" "mm"#  #mmmm  #mmmm          #mm#    #      #      #   
+                                                               
+                                                               
diff --git a/banner1 b/banner1
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+                                                        
+m     m        ""#                                  m   
+#  #  #  mmm     #     mmm    mmm   mmmmm   mmm     #   
+" #"# # #"  #    #    #"  "  #" "#  # # #  #"  #    #   
+ ## ##" #""""    #    #      #   #  # # #  #""""    "   
+ #   #  "#mm"    "mm  "#mm"  "#m#"  # # #  "#mm"    #   
+                                                        
+                                                        
diff --git a/dot-env.sample b/dot-env.sample
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+# Settings for the neofinger program itself
+NF_BASEDIR="."
+NF_DBNAME="usermap.db"
+NF_LOGFILE="query.log"
+
+# Settings for uscpi-tcp
+NF_PREPEND="sudo"
+# these must be numaric
+NF_RUNAS=`id`
+NF_GROUP=`id -g`
+
+NF_PORT="79"
diff --git a/initdb.py b/initdb.py
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+++ b/initdb.py
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+import sqlite3
+import os 
+from settings import *
+
+schema = open("schema.sql").read()
+banner1 = open("banner1").read()
+banner = open("banner").read()
+os.chdir(BASEDIR)
+
+db = sqlite3.connect(DBNAME)
+c = db.cursor()
+c.execute(schema)
+db.commit()
+
+uname = os.getenv("USER")
+
+sqls = "INSERT INTO lusers (unix_name, type, data) VALUES (?,?,?)"
+
+c.execute(sqls, (uname, 255, "Created this foolishness"))
+c.execute(sqls, ("__b1__", 11, banner1))
+c.execute(sqls, ('__b__', 11, banner))
+db.commit()
+db.close()
diff --git a/neofinger.py b/neofinger.py
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+++ b/neofinger.py
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+#!/usr/bin/python3
+# Note We're doing this using uscpi-tcp for inital testing
+# We'll add the socket stuff later
+import sqlite3
+import os
+import random
+import pickle
+import sys
+import logging
+import subprocess
+from settings import *
+DYN_TYPE = 76
+BANNER_TYPE = 11
+PLAINTEXT_TYPE = 255
+CRLF = '\r\n'
+
+
+def eat_pickle(sP):
+
+    cmd = pickle.loads(sP)
+    p = subprocess.Popen(cmd, stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
+    return p.stdout.read().decode("ascii")
+
+
+os.chdir(BASEDIR)
+dbcon = None
+try:
+    dbcon = sqlite3.connect(DBNAME)
+except Exception as e:
+    sys.stdout.write(str(e))
+
+
+def banner_query():
+
+    from random import choice
+    sqls = "SELECT data FROM lusers WHERE type=?"
+    cur = dbcon.cursor()
+    cur.execute(sqls, [BANNER_TYPE])
+    bList = cur.fetchall()
+    b = choice(bList)
+    return b[0] + CRLF
+
+def parse_and_query(uname):
+
+    rv = "No such entity\r\n"
+    if uname == '':
+        banner_query()
+    else:
+        sqls = "SELECT type, data FROM lusers WHERE unix_name=?"
+        cur = dbcon.cursor()
+        cur.execute(sqls, [uname])
+        data = cur.fetchone()
+        if data:
+            rv = eat_pickle(data[1])+CRLF if int(data[0]
+                                                 ) == DYN_TYPE else data[1]+CRLF
+    return rv
+
+
+def info_query(uname):
+
+    cur = dbcon.cursor()
+    cur.execute("SELECT data FROM lusers WHERE unix_name=?", [uname])
+    data = cur.fetchone()
+    rv = data[0] + CRLF if data else "404 No such entity\r\n"
+    return rv
+
+
+def send_stdin():
+    return sys.stdin.readline()
+
+
+recv_query = send_stdin
+
+
+def send_msg(x): return sys.stdout.write(str(x))
+
+
+logging.basicConfig(filename=LOGFILE, filemode='w',
+                    format='%(asctime)s - %(message)s', datefmt='%d-%b-%y %H:%M:%S')
+line = recv_query()
+if line == "\r\n" or line == "\n":
+    logging.warning("Query was blank sending banner")
+    send_msg(banner_query())
+else:
+    resp = parse_and_query(line.strip(CRLF))
+    logging.warning("Query was %s sent %s", line.strip(
+        CRLF), str(resp).strip(CRLF))
+    send_msg(resp)
+sys.exit(0)
diff --git a/neofingerd.sh b/neofingerd.sh
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+++ b/neofingerd.sh
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+#!/bin/bash
+. .env
+$NF_PREPEND tcpserver -v -u $NF_RUNAS -g $NF_GROUP  0 $NF_PORT $NF_BASEDIR/neofinger.py
diff --git a/schema.sql b/schema.sql
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+++ b/schema.sql
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+CREATE TABLE lusers (
+uid INTEGER PRIMARY KEY NOT NULL,
+type INTEGER DEFAULT 255,
+unix_name VARCHAR(32) NOT NULL UNIQUE,
+data BLOB DEFAULT 'their a really nice person'
+);
+
diff --git a/settings.py b/settings.py
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+++ b/settings.py
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+from dotenv import load_dotenv
+import os
+load_dotenv()
+LOGFILE = os.getenv("NF_LOGFILE")
+BASEDIR = os.getenv("NF_BASEDIR")
+DBNAME = os.getenv("NF_DBNAME")