finger.conf(5) BSD File Formats Manual 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 fin-
gered 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 pro-
viding 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 dis-
played 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 BSD
Mac OS X 10.7 - Generated Tue Aug 23 10:27:35 CDT 2011