[Discuss] Dropping obsolete commands (Linux Pocket Guide)

[Bill Ricker]

On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 11:37 AM, Chuck Anderson <cra at wpi.edu> wrote:

> Those two options don't work for a regular user to change their own
> Full Name.
>

​In IT environments, even folks in Wheel shouldn't be editing their Full
Name, that's reserved for some security application.
On a family laptop, anyone who isn't allowed to run Update won't be
changing their name either.
​Maybe in a College environment you don't need to prevent a user from
changing their name without review, but the social engineering
possibilities of changing FullName of <cra at wpi.edu> to "Vice Chancellor C.
Adams" ​are such that i'd discourage allowing setuid  chfn to contain any
breaches.



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