chfn \- change full name of user
except that it is used to change the gecos field of the password
file rather than the password entry.
Note that the string specified will replace the gecos field of the
If (as on the UCB system) this field contains information in addition
to the user's full name, this information must be included in string
Hence chfn can be used to fix phone numbers, offices, etc.
An example use of this command would be
chfn mark \'& Horton,7686,508E,5240633\'
Note that the string must in general be quoted to shield blanks
and special characters from the shell.
The field should consist of the users name, followed by the last 4 digits
of their office extension, followed by their office number and finally their
home phone number. Any of these can be eliminated.
At UCB, offices can be given as ``508E'' for 508 Evans, and ``187MC'' for
on the user before and after
to make sure you have formatted the data correctly.
finger(1), passwd(5), chsh(1), passwd(1)
The encoding of the office and extension information is installation dependent.