On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 5:21 PM, Edward Ned Harvey (blu)
wrote:
> How often does somebody change their name? Basically when they get
> married... Approximiately 0.5 times in a lifetime.
Heh, my in-laws exceeded that rate by lots.
But if an unprivileged user wants to change their FN without si
> From: Discuss [mailto:discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On
> Behalf Of Chuck Anderson
>
> Other than chfn, how do people usually change their Full Name in
> /etc/passwd?
Ask the sysadmin to update Active Directory, LDAP, NIS, or whatever.
I certainly don't expect regular users to know
On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 01:10:56PM -0500, Daniel Barrett wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 09:08:44PM -0500, Chuck Anderson wrote:
> >> Other than chfn, how do people usually change their Full Name in
> >> /etc/passwd?
>
> On November 18, 2015, Dan Ritter wrote:
> >usermod comes along with useradd
On 11/18/2015 11:37 AM, Chuck Anderson wrote:
> Those two options don't work for a regular user to change their own
> Full Name.
IME, the intersection of users having a legitimate need to change their
full name information and users not having the necessary superuser
privileges to effect such chan
On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 11:37 AM, Chuck Anderson wrote:
> Those two options don't work for a regular user to change their own
> Full Name.
>
In IT environments, even folks in Wheel shouldn't be editing their Full
Name, that's reserved for some security application.
On a family laptop, anyone wh
On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 09:08:44PM -0500, Chuck Anderson wrote:
>> Other than chfn, how do people usually change their Full Name in
>> /etc/passwd?
On November 18, 2015, Dan Ritter wrote:
>usermod comes along with useradd and userdel. Being able to
>supply everything on the command line (including
The way things are done has changed over time. sudo wasn't around when
chfn was developed and became part of the standard command set.
It isn't bad, just different than newer individuals typically learn.
Overall, UNIX was a place to tring together lots of small programs into
scripts. Most folk
On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 09:01:19AM -0500, Bill Ricker wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 6:46 AM, Dan Ritter wrote:
>
> > > Other than chfn, how do people usually change their Full Name in
> > > /etc/passwd?
> >
> > usermod comes along with useradd and userdel. Being able to
> > supply everything o
On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 6:46 AM, Dan Ritter wrote:
> > Other than chfn, how do people usually change their Full Name in
> > /etc/passwd?
>
> usermod comes along with useradd and userdel. Being able to
> supply everything on the command line (including a password
> hash) is a great improvement ove
On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 09:08:44PM -0500, Chuck Anderson wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 07:15:26PM -0500, Daniel Barrett wrote:
> > As for the rest of the commands I asked about, I plan to drop finger
> > and chfn
>
> Other than chfn, how do people usually change their Full Name in
> /etc/passwd
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