1098c6e87SBrian Somers.\" Copyright (c) 2000 Mark Knight <markk@knigma.org> 2098c6e87SBrian Somers.\" All rights reserved. 3098c6e87SBrian Somers.\" 4098c6e87SBrian Somers.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 5098c6e87SBrian Somers.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 6098c6e87SBrian Somers.\" are met: 7098c6e87SBrian Somers.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 8098c6e87SBrian Somers.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 9098c6e87SBrian Somers.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 10098c6e87SBrian Somers.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 11098c6e87SBrian Somers.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 12098c6e87SBrian Somers.\" 13098c6e87SBrian Somers.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 14098c6e87SBrian Somers.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 15098c6e87SBrian Somers.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 16098c6e87SBrian Somers.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 17098c6e87SBrian Somers.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 18098c6e87SBrian Somers.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 19098c6e87SBrian Somers.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 20098c6e87SBrian Somers.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 21098c6e87SBrian Somers.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 22098c6e87SBrian Somers.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 23098c6e87SBrian Somers.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 24098c6e87SBrian Somers.\" 25098c6e87SBrian Somers.Dd August 16, 2000 26098c6e87SBrian Somers.Dt FINGER.CONF 5 272087b453SSheldon Hearn.Os 28098c6e87SBrian Somers.Sh NAME 29098c6e87SBrian Somers.Nm finger.conf 30098c6e87SBrian Somers.Nd 31098c6e87SBrian Somers.Xr finger 1 32098c6e87SBrian Somersalias configuration file 33098c6e87SBrian Somers.Sh DESCRIPTION 34098c6e87SBrian SomersThe optional 352087b453SSheldon Hearn.Nm 36098c6e87SBrian Somersfile is used to provide aliases that can be fingered by local 37098c6e87SBrian Somersand network users. 38098c6e87SBrian SomersThis may be useful where a user's login name is not the same 39040864acSBrian Somersas their preferred mail address, or for providing virtual login names 40040864acSBrian Somersthan can be fingered. 41098c6e87SBrian Somers.Pp 42098c6e87SBrian SomersLines beginning with ``#'' are comments. 43098c6e87SBrian SomersOther lines must consist of an 44098c6e87SBrian Somersalias name and a target name separated by a colon. 45040864acSBrian SomersA target name should be either a user, a forward 46040864acSBrian Somersreference to another alias or the path of a world readable file. 47040864acSBrian Somers.Pp 48040864acSBrian SomersWhere an alias points to a file, the contents of that file will be displayed 49040864acSBrian Somerswhen the alias is fingered. 506c7216dfSRuslan Ermilov.Sh FILES 516c7216dfSRuslan Ermilov.Bl -tag -width /etc/finger.conf -compact 526c7216dfSRuslan Ermilov.It Pa /etc/finger.conf 536c7216dfSRuslan Ermilov.Xr finger 1 546c7216dfSRuslan Ermilovalias definition data base 556c7216dfSRuslan Ermilov.El 56098c6e87SBrian Somers.Sh EXAMPLES 57098c6e87SBrian Somers.Bd -literal 58098c6e87SBrian Somers# /etc/finger.conf alias definition file 59098c6e87SBrian Somers# 60098c6e87SBrian Somers# Format alias:(user|alias) 61098c6e87SBrian Somers# 62098c6e87SBrian Somers# Individual aliases 63098c6e87SBrian Somers# 64098c6e87SBrian Somersmarkk:mkn 65098c6e87SBrian Somersjohn.smith:dev329 66098c6e87SBrian Somersjohn:dev329 67040864acSBrian Somerssue:/etc/finger/sue.txt 68040864acSBrian Somers# 69040864acSBrian Somers# Network status message 70040864acSBrian Somers# 71040864acSBrian Somersstatus:/usr/local/etc/status.txt 72098c6e87SBrian Somers# 73098c6e87SBrian Somers# Administrative redirects 74098c6e87SBrian Somers# 75098c6e87SBrian Somersroot:admin 76098c6e87SBrian Somerspostmaster:admin 77098c6e87SBrian Somersabuse:admin 78098c6e87SBrian Somers# 79098c6e87SBrian Somers# For the time being, 'sod' is sysadmin. 80098c6e87SBrian Somers# 81098c6e87SBrian Somersadmin:sod 82098c6e87SBrian Somers.Ed 83098c6e87SBrian Somers.Sh SEE ALSO 842087b453SSheldon Hearn.Xr finger 1 85098c6e87SBrian Somers.Sh HISTORY 86098c6e87SBrian SomersSupport for the 872087b453SSheldon Hearn.Nm 88098c6e87SBrian Somersfile was submitted by Mark Knight <markk@knigma.org> and first appeared in 8978be7a11SBrian Somers.Fx 4.2 . 90