NAME¶

chfn - change your finger information

SYNOPSIS¶

chfn [-f full-name] [-o office] [-p office-phone] [-h home-phone] [-u] [-v] [username]

DESCRIPTION¶

chfn is used to change your finger information. This information is stored in the /etc/passwd file, and is displayed by the finger program. The Linux finger command will display four pieces of information that can be changed by chfn: your real name, your work room and phone, and your home phone.

Any of the four pieces of information can be specified on the command line. If no information is given on the command line, chfn enters interactive mode.

In interactive mode, chfn will prompt for each field. At a prompt, you can enter the new information, or just press return to leave the field unchanged. Enter the keyword "none" to make the field blank.

chfn supports non-local entries (kerberos, LDAP, etc.) if linked with libuser, otherwise use ypchfn(1), lchfn(1) or any other implementation for non-local entries.

OPTIONS¶

-f, --full-name full-name

-o, --office office

-p, --office-phone office-phone

-h, --home-phone home-phone

-u, --help

-v, --version

CONFIG FILE ITEMS¶

chfn reads the /etc/login.defs configuration file (see login.defs(5)). Note that the configuration file could be distributed with another package (e.g., shadow-utils). The following configuration items are relevant for chfn:

CHFN_RESTRICT string

EXIT STATUS¶

Returns 0 if operation was successful, 1 if operation failed or command syntax was not valid.

AUTHORS¶

Salvatore Valente <svalente@mit.edu>

SEE ALSO¶

chsh(1), finger(1), login.defs(5), passwd(5)

REPORTING BUGS¶

For bug reports, use the issue tracker at <https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues>.

AVAILABILITY¶

The chfn command is part of the util-linux package which can be downloaded from Linux Kernel Archive <https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/>.