[Discuss] Dropping obsolete commands (Linux Pocket Guide)

[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.