Users can, however, change the
information associated with their name and contained with other login information in
/etc/passwd and in the public finger file. This is generally phone-directory information
that may need to be public, but that otherwise may be an artifact of a bygone era.
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Finger was a program developed to help Unix users find each other, both electronically
and physically. Typing finger
delivered whatever was in that user??™s finger
file. To see what??™s in yours, type chfn (change finger information) at the shell prompt. By
default, openSUSE does not create additional user information with new users, but it is
easily configured by Root. You??™ll see something like this:
Name:
Office:
Office Phone:
Home Phone:
You??™re led through a series of prompts to enter new or updated information. Feel free to
leave items blank (or change them appropriately).
Choosing and Using a Shell
The shell is perhaps the most underappreciated feature of a modern Linux system. New
users try to avoid it, preferring the GUI tools that they are used to.
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