1.\" Copyright (c) 2000 Mark Knight <markk@knigma.org> 2.\" All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 5.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 6.\" are met: 7.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 8.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 9.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 10.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 11.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 12.\" 13.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 14.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 15.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 16.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 17.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 18.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 19.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 20.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 21.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 22.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 23.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 24.\" 25.Dd August 16, 2000 26.Dt FINGER.CONF 5 27.Os 28.Sh NAME 29.Nm finger.conf 30.Nd 31.Xr finger 1 32alias configuration file 33.Sh DESCRIPTION 34The optional 35.Nm 36file is used to provide aliases that can be fingered by local 37and network users. 38This may be useful where a user's login name is not the same 39as their preferred mail address, or for providing virtual login names 40than can be fingered. 41.Pp 42Lines beginning with ``#'' are comments. 43Other lines must consist of an 44alias name and a target name separated by a colon. 45A target name should be either a user, a forward 46reference to another alias or the path of a world readable file. 47.Pp 48Where an alias points to a file, the contents of that file will be displayed 49when the alias is fingered. 50.Sh FILES 51.Bl -tag -width /etc/finger.conf -compact 52.It Pa /etc/finger.conf 53.Xr finger 1 54alias definition data base 55.El 56.Sh EXAMPLES 57.Bd -literal 58# /etc/finger.conf alias definition file 59# 60# Format alias:(user|alias) 61# 62# Individual aliases 63# 64markk:mkn 65john.smith:dev329 66john:dev329 67sue:/etc/finger/sue.txt 68# 69# Network status message 70# 71status:/usr/local/etc/status.txt 72# 73# Administrative redirects 74# 75root:admin 76postmaster:admin 77abuse:admin 78# 79# For the time being, 'sod' is sysadmin. 80# 81admin:sod 82.Ed 83.Sh SEE ALSO 84.Xr finger 1 85.Sh HISTORY 86Support for the 87.Nm 88file was submitted by Mark Knight <markk@knigma.org> and first appeared in 89.Fx 4.2 . 90