FINGER.CONF(5)

NAME
finger.conf - finger(1) alias configuration file

DESCRIPTION
The optional finger.conf file is used to provide aliases that can be fingered by local and network users. This may be useful where a user's login name is not the same as their preferred mail address, or for providing virtual login names than can be fingered.

Lines beginning with ``#'' are comments. Other lines must consist of an alias name and a target name separated by a colon. A target name should be either a user, a forward reference to another alias or the path of a world readable file.

Where an alias points to a file, the contents of that file will be displayed when the alias is fingered.

FILES
/etc/finger.conf
    finger(1) alias definition data base

EXAMPLES

    # /etc/finger.conf alias definition file
    #
    # Format alias:(user|alias)
    #
    # Individual aliases
    #
    markk:mkn
    john.smith:dev329
    john:dev329
    sue:/etc/finger/sue.txt
    #
    # Network status message
    #
    status:/usr/local/etc/status.txt
    #
    # Administrative redirects
    #
    root:admin
    postmaster:admin
    abuse:admin
    #
    # For the time being, 'sod' is sysadmin.
    #
    admin:sod

SEE ALSO
finger(1)

HISTORY
Support for the finger.conf file was submitted by Mark Knight <markk@knigma.org> and first appeared in FreeBSD 4.2.