finger.conf(5)

NAME

finger.conf - finger(1) alias configuration file

DESCRIPTION

The optional finger.conf file is used to provide aliases

that can be fingered by local and network users. This may be useful where

a user's
login name is not the same as their preferred mail address,

or for providing virtual login names than can be fingered.

Lines beginning with ``#'' are comments. Other lines must

consist of an
alias name and a target name separated by a colon. A target

name should
be either a user, a forward reference to another alias or

the path of a
world readable file.

Where an alias points to a file, the contents of that file

will be displayed when the alias is fingered.

FILES

/etc/finger.conf finger(1) alias definition data base

EXAMPLES

# /etc/finger.conf alias definition file
#
# Format alias:(user|alias)
#
# Individual aliases
#
markk:mkn
john.smith:dev329
john:dev329
sue:/etc/finger/sue.txt
#
# Network status message
#
status:/usr/local/etc/status.txt
#
# Administrative redirects
#
root:admin
postmaster:admin
abuse:admin
#
# For the time being, 'sod' is sysadmin.
#
admin:sod

SEE ALSO

finger(1)

HISTORY

Support for the finger.conf file was submitted by Mark

Knight
<markk@knigma.org> and first appeared in FreeBSD 4.2.

BSD August 16, 2000

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