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[Discuss] Dropping obsolete commands (Linux Pocket Guide)

On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 6:46 AM, Dan Ritter <dsr at randomstring.org> wrote:

> > Other than chfn, how do people usually change their Full Name in
> > /etc/passwd?
>
> usermod comes along with useradd and userdel. Being able to
> supply everything on the command line (including a password
> hash) is a great improvement over interactive commands.


?there's always 'sudo vipw'?



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