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chfn(1) | chfn(1) |
WARNINGS
The encoding of of®ce and extension information is
For historical reasons, the user's name, etc., are stored in the /etc/passwd ®le. This is an inappropriate place to store the information.
Because two users may try to write the passwd ®le at once, a synchronization method was developed. On rare occasions, chfn prints a message that the password ®le is busy. When this occurs, chfn sleeps for a short time, then tries to write to the passwd ®le again.
AUTHOR
chfn was developed by the University of California, Berkeley.
FILES
/etc/passwd
/etc/ptmp
NOTES
The chfn command is a hard link to passwd command. When chfn is executed, actually the passwd command gets executed with appropriate arguments to change the user gecos information in the repository speci®ed in command line. If no repository is speci®ed the gecos information is changed in /etc/passwd ®le.
SEE ALSO
chsh(1), ®nger(1), passwd(1), passwd(4).
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