Re: useradmin finger information

[Jamie C. <jca...@we...>]

Terry Davis <td...@bi...> wrote ..
> I sent a previous post ( i think ) regarding phone number and that sort
> of
> information in the useradmin module.  I think I was attempting to say finger
> information.  chfn on linux will prompt for finger information.  I am going
> to
> hack in support for it myself but this might be a useful addition.  chfn
> on
> redhat has support for:
> username
> full name
> room number
> office phone
> home phone
> 
> slackware is a bit different:
> username
> full name
> room number
> work phone
> home phone
> other
> 
> Thank you,

This information actually gets stored in the 'real name' field of the password
file, separated by commas. It is rather non-standard though, and some programs
will display it when displaying a user's real name ... which is why I'm not
sure if it should be a standard feature of webmin.

 - Jamie