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finger.conf
—
finger(1) alias
configuration file
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.
# /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
Support for the finger.conf
file was
submitted by Mark Knight <markk@knigma.org> and first appeared in
FreeBSD 4.2.
August 16, 2000 | macOS 15.0 |