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?
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.