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.\" $FreeBSD$ 26.\" 27.Dd August 16, 2000 28.Dt FINGER.CONF 5 29.Os 30.Sh NAME 31.Nm finger.conf 32.Nd 33.Xr finger 1 34alias configuration file 35.Sh DESCRIPTION 36The optional 37.Nm 38file is used to provide aliases that can be fingered by local 39and network users. 40This may be useful where a user's login name is not the same 41as their preferred mail address, or for providing virtual login names 42than can be fingered. 43.Pp 44Lines beginning with ``#'' are comments. 45Other lines must consist of an 46alias name and a target name separated by a colon. 47A target name should be either a user, a forward 48reference to another alias or the path of a world readable file. 49.Pp 50Where an alias points to a file, the contents of that file will be displayed 51when the alias is fingered. 52.Sh FILES 53.Bl -tag -width /etc/finger.conf -compact 54.It Pa /etc/finger.conf 55.Xr finger 1 56alias definition data base 57.El 58.Sh EXAMPLES 59.Bd -literal 60# /etc/finger.conf alias definition file 61# 62# Format alias:(user|alias) 63# 64# Individual aliases 65# 66markk:mkn 67john.smith:dev329 68john:dev329 69sue:/etc/finger/sue.txt 70# 71# Network status message 72# 73status:/usr/local/etc/status.txt 74# 75# Administrative redirects 76# 77root:admin 78postmaster:admin 79abuse:admin 80# 81# For the time being, 'sod' is sysadmin. 82# 83admin:sod 84.Ed 85.Sh SEE ALSO 86.Xr finger 1 87.Sh HISTORY 88Support for the 89.Nm 90file was submitted by Mark Knight <markk@knigma.org> and first appeared in 91.Fx 4.2 . 92