[Discuss] Dropping obsolete commands (Linux Pocket Guide)

[cra at WPI.EDU (Chuck Anderson)]

On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 09:01:19AM -0500, Bill Ricker wrote:
> 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'?

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