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FINGER.CONF(5)              BSD File Formats Manual             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 fin-gered. fingered.
     gered.

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.

BSD                             August 16, 2000                            BSD