command "finger"

I used to issue the command "finger" to check who is on the system,
however, I could no longer to finger the users
who are on line. It only shows me root user even I run the finger
commend under my user account. Please see below.
Would anyone shed a light? Thanks

finger
Login Name Tty Idle Login Time Where
root root *:0 - Mon 17:37
root root pts/1 16:1
.

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