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.\"$FreeBSD$ 26098c6e87SBrian Somers.\" 27098c6e87SBrian Somers.Dd August 16, 2000 28098c6e87SBrian Somers.Dt FINGER.CONF 5 292087b453SSheldon Hearn.Os 30098c6e87SBrian Somers.Sh NAME 31098c6e87SBrian Somers.Nm finger.conf 32098c6e87SBrian Somers.Nd 33098c6e87SBrian Somers.Xr finger 1 34098c6e87SBrian Somersalias configuration file 35098c6e87SBrian Somers.Sh DESCRIPTION 36098c6e87SBrian SomersThe optional 372087b453SSheldon Hearn.Nm 38098c6e87SBrian Somersfile is used to provide aliases that can be fingered by local 39098c6e87SBrian Somersand network users. 40098c6e87SBrian SomersThis may be useful where a user's login name is not the same 41040864acSBrian Somersas their preferred mail address, or for providing virtual login names 42040864acSBrian Somersthan can be fingered. 43098c6e87SBrian Somers.Pp 44098c6e87SBrian SomersLines beginning with ``#'' are comments. 45098c6e87SBrian SomersOther lines must consist of an 46098c6e87SBrian Somersalias name and a target name separated by a colon. 47040864acSBrian SomersA target name should be either a user, a forward 48040864acSBrian Somersreference to another alias or the path of a world readable file. 49040864acSBrian Somers.Pp 50040864acSBrian SomersWhere an alias points to a file, the contents of that file will be displayed 51040864acSBrian Somerswhen the alias is fingered. 52098c6e87SBrian Somers.Sh EXAMPLES 53098c6e87SBrian Somers.Bd -literal 54098c6e87SBrian Somers# /etc/finger.conf alias definition file 55098c6e87SBrian Somers# 56098c6e87SBrian Somers# Format alias:(user|alias) 57098c6e87SBrian Somers# 58098c6e87SBrian Somers# Individual aliases 59098c6e87SBrian Somers# 60098c6e87SBrian Somersmarkk:mkn 61098c6e87SBrian Somersjohn.smith:dev329 62098c6e87SBrian Somersjohn:dev329 63040864acSBrian Somerssue:/etc/finger/sue.txt 64040864acSBrian Somers# 65040864acSBrian Somers# Network status message 66040864acSBrian Somers# 67040864acSBrian Somersstatus:/usr/local/etc/status.txt 68098c6e87SBrian Somers# 69098c6e87SBrian Somers# Administrative redirects 70098c6e87SBrian Somers# 71098c6e87SBrian Somersroot:admin 72098c6e87SBrian Somerspostmaster:admin 73098c6e87SBrian Somersabuse:admin 74098c6e87SBrian Somers# 75098c6e87SBrian Somers# For the time being, 'sod' is sysadmin. 76098c6e87SBrian Somers# 77098c6e87SBrian Somersadmin:sod 78098c6e87SBrian Somers.Ed 79098c6e87SBrian Somers.Sh FILES 80098c6e87SBrian Somers.Bl -tag -width /etc/finger.conf -compact 81098c6e87SBrian Somers.It Pa /etc/finger.conf 82098c6e87SBrian Somers.Xr finger 1 83098c6e87SBrian Somersalias definition data base 84098c6e87SBrian Somers.El 85098c6e87SBrian Somers.Sh SEE ALSO 862087b453SSheldon Hearn.Xr finger 1 87098c6e87SBrian Somers.Sh HISTORY 88098c6e87SBrian SomersSupport for the 892087b453SSheldon Hearn.Nm 90098c6e87SBrian Somersfile was submitted by Mark Knight <markk@knigma.org> and first appeared in 91098c6e87SBrian Somers.Fx 5.0 . 92