On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 09:38:16AM -0800, Tim Alberts wrote: > I am working on scripts to manage user accounts a little easier. In the > User Manager GUI app there is a field 'Full Name'. However, the CLI > command 'useradd' does not have a field for 'Full Name'. It does have a > 'comment' field (The new user's password file comment field) as shown in > 'man useradd'. Question, are these two the same field and if not, where > is the 'Full Name' data stored by User Manager and what exactly is the > comment field of the 'useradd' command? Try it and find out -- that's what I did to make sure I'm giving you the right answer here. And that answer is: yes, it sets that field. (see 'man 5 passwd' -- it's the "GECOS" field.) You can also use the 'chfn' command to set this, plus some other semi-standard data often written there. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> --> Fedora Users & Developers Conference, hosted by Boston University <-- February 18th, 2005 <http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon1>
