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.Dd August 16, 2000 .Dt FINGER.CONF 5 .Os .Sh NAME .Nm finger.conf .Nd .Xr finger 1 alias configuration file .Sh DESCRIPTION The optional .Nm 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.
p 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.
p Where an alias points to a file, the contents of that file will be displayed when the alias is fingered. .Sh FILES l -tag -width /etc/finger.conf -compact t Pa /etc/finger.conf .Xr finger 1 alias definition data base .El .Sh EXAMPLES d -literal # /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 .Ed .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr finger 1 .Sh HISTORY Support for the .Nm file was submitted by Mark Knight <markk@knigma.org> and first appeared in .Fx 4.2 .