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: src/usr.bin/finger/finger.conf.5,v 1.2.2.3 2000/09/01 20:14:16 brian Exp $ 26.\"$DragonFly: src/usr.bin/finger/finger.conf.5,v 1.3 2006/02/17 19:39:04 swildner Exp $ 27.\" 28.Dd August 16, 2000 29.Dt FINGER.CONF 5 30.Os 31.Sh NAME 32.Nm finger.conf 33.Nd 34.Xr finger 1 35alias configuration file 36.Sh DESCRIPTION 37The optional 38.Nm 39file is used to provide aliases that can be fingered by local 40and network users. 41This may be useful where a user's login name is not the same 42as their preferred mail address, or for providing virtual login names 43than can be fingered. 44.Pp 45Lines beginning with ``#'' are comments. 46Other lines must consist of an 47alias name and a target name separated by a colon. 48A target name should be either a user, a forward 49reference to another alias or the path of a world readable file. 50.Pp 51Where an alias points to a file, the contents of that file will be displayed 52when the alias is fingered. 53.Sh FILES 54.Bl -tag -width /etc/finger.conf -compact 55.It Pa /etc/finger.conf 56.Xr finger 1 57alias definition data base 58.El 59.Sh EXAMPLES 60.Bd -literal 61# /etc/finger.conf alias definition file 62# 63# Format alias:(user|alias) 64# 65# Individual aliases 66# 67markk:mkn 68john.smith:dev329 69john:dev329 70sue:/etc/finger/sue.txt 71# 72# Network status message 73# 74status:/usr/local/etc/status.txt 75# 76# Administrative redirects 77# 78root:admin 79postmaster:admin 80abuse:admin 81# 82# For the time being, 'sod' is sysadmin. 83# 84admin:sod 85.Ed 86.Sh SEE ALSO 87.Xr finger 1 88.Sh HISTORY 89Support for the 90.Nm 91file was submitted by Mark Knight <markk@knigma.org> and first appeared in 92.Fx 4.2 . 93