NAME
finger.conf —
finger(1) alias configuration file
DESCRIPTION
The optionalfinger.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
HISTORY
Support for the finger.conf file was
submitted by Mark Knight
<markk@knigma.org>
and first appeared in FreeBSD 4.2.