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 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.
BSD August 16, 2000 BSD
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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 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.
BSD August 16, 2000 BSD
is there a way to show information on all the users on your system? when i use 'finger' is only shows users names and info who are currently on the system. is there a way to show all accounts? thanx! (5 Replies)
Hello all,
Here is what I am trying to do. If a user exist, then send an echo "EXIST" or else "DOES NOT EXIST". (under HP-UX)
Kind of:
#!/usr/bin/sh
USER=mylogin
finger $USER
if $? = 0
then
echo "EXIST""
else
echo "DOES NOT EXIST"
fi (10 Replies)
Hi everyone,
I'm trying to extract the user name and full name from the finger command without using sed or awk.
Any pointers?
Thanks in advance. (6 Replies)
Hi All,
I have a file like
john::208:johnson
john::208:mery
john::208:test
admin:*:1:johnson
admin:*:1:test
and wanna convert this as
john::208:johnson,mery,test
admin:*:1:johnson,test
please help me to create a script for this
thanks in advance
John (4 Replies)
Hi -
I have a file with lots of lines in that I need to order based on the number of commas!
e.g the file looks something like :-
cn=john,cn=users,cn=uk,dc=dot,dc=com
cn=john,cn=users,dc=com
cn=users,cn=groups,dc=com
cn=john,cn=admins,cn=users,cn=uk,dc=dot,dc=com... (4 Replies)
I want to know the correct version of how i should use the finger command in this example below.(os is debian lenny)
(nymserver.pl is located in /home/nymserv directory.)
the two versions are :
(in/etc/inetd.conf)
finger stream tcp nowait nymuser /usr/nym/nymserv nymserv... (3 Replies)
Hello,
I've a script that verifies users connections.
This is the check part
do
NEVER=$(finger $USER | grep -i Never)
if
then
NAME=$(finger $USER | grep -i "In real life" | sed -e 's/^.*life: //')
echo $USER $NAME >> never_logged #" "$NEVER
fi
done
that for a specific... (6 Replies)
Hello,
I've telneted into a unix box (as id1) and then issued a su - id3 to switch to the other userid. Does anyone know how I can prove this user id has been swtiched to? I've tried finger and who but it only shows the id1 as being logged on.
Any help much appreciated (4 Replies)
Hi,
Need help on the below topic.
I am looping finger command and trying to get each line content into a variable. Output of finger command produces more than one line and each line was multiple words.
for get_line in `finger`
do
echo "Finger Value: ${get_line}'"
done
The issue is... (9 Replies)
how to extract user machine name for current terminal using finger command
below command gives machinename for all session , is it possible to filter it to only currernt terminal ?
finger -b -p $LOGNAME | grep from (12 Replies)
Hi,
I have taken all active user list and passing it to below code
for i in $(cat sample.out)
do
finger ${usr}> report.txt
done
I got below O/P
Login Name TTY Idle When Where
de4s1 john console 111d Fri 03:00
efr56 ... (21 Replies)
I have been trying to run the finger command in a if statement but its giving me a bunch of errors.
gidlistTemp="g274gG;g2759C;g28320;g2885G;g2A276;g23338;g2A5h5;g2A307"
for i in $(echo $gidlistTemp| tr ';' ' \n')
do
tst=(finger $i | wc -l)
if
then
... (4 Replies)
Actually I have many pictures with diferent name and size around 2000, I need generate a copy of them from one list of alias. The structure of the list is something like this:
alias_list.txt
<01>randomname.png<02>
Randomname.png
RandoMname.png
RandOmname.png
RandomnamE.png... (6 Replies)
Hi
I need to disable finger & telnet command in solaris 8
I have put the # infront of finger and telnet line in /etc/inetd.conf file. Further I have run the below command
kill -1 <process id of inetd >
But when I am running finger command it is till giving information for remote machine... (8 Replies)