1lchfn(1)                    General Commands Manual                   lchfn(1)
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NAME

6       lchfn - Change finger information
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SYNOPSIS

10       lchfn [OPTION]... [user]
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DESCRIPTION

14       Displays  and  allows changing information about user that is available
15       using the finger(1) command (usually stored in  the  "gecos"  field  of
16       /etc/passwd).
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18       If  the user argument is not provided, username of the invoking user is
19       used; the user argument is ignored if lchfn is run set-uid to a differ‐
20       ent user.
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22       Entering an empty string (by pressing Enter) at a prompt is interpreted
23       as accepting a default value; to erase an attribute (or to use an empty
24       string as the attribute value), enter a single dot character.
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OPTIONS

28       -i, --interactive
29              Ask  all questions when connecting to the user database, even if
30              default answers are set up in libuser configuration.
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EXIT STATUS

34       The exit status is 0 on success, 1 on error.
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38libuser                           Sep 20 2004                         lchfn(1)