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lchfn(1)                                       General Commands Manual                                       lchfn(1)



NAME
       lchfn - Change finger information


SYNOPSIS
       lchfn [OPTION]... [user]


DESCRIPTION
       Displays  and  allows  changing  information about user that is available using the finger(1) command (usually
       stored in the "gecos" field of /etc/passwd).

       If the user argument is not provided, username of the invoking user is used; the user argument is  ignored  if
       lchfn is run set-uid to a different user.

       Entering an empty string (by pressing Enter) at a prompt is interpreted as accepting a default value; to erase
       an attribute (or to use an empty string as the attribute value), enter a single dot character.


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


EXIT STATUS
       The exit status is 0 on success, 1 on error.



libuser                                              Sep 20 2004                                             lchfn(1)