HP-UX Reference (11i v3 07/02) - 1 User Commands A-M (vol 1)

chfn(1) chfn(1)

EXAMPLES

The following is a sample run. The user’s input is shown in regular type.

Name [Tracy Simmons]:

Location (Ex: 47U-P5) []:

42L-P1

Office Phone (Ex: 1632) [77777]: 71863

Home Phone (Ex: 9875432) [4085551546]:

none

WARNINGS

The encoding of ofﬁce and extension information is installation-dependent.

For historical reasons, the user’s name, etc., are stored in the

/etc/passwd ﬁle. This is an inappropriate

place to store the information.

Because two or more users may try to write the

/etc/passwd ﬁle at the same time, a synchronization

method was developed.

chfn prints a message that the

/etc/passwd ﬁle is busy. When this occurs,

chfn sleeps for a short time, then tries to write to the

/etc/passwd ﬁle again.

AUTHOR

chfn was developed by the University of California, Berkeley.

FILES

/etc/passwd

/etc/ptmp