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Old 03-11-2002
Question Admin of Users from command line
I have been adding new users on a system(SOLARIS 8), and one of these 'nice'(?) users has got back to me to complain that his full name isnt showing up when he does the following at the command prompt :

$ finger <login_id>

You see when I added the users details at the command line using 'useradd' the part where you add the comment (-c), it would only allow one word for this part.

How do I overcome this - I know you're saying use the GUI(Admintool) but that option isnt open to me at the moment.

Basically if your name is joe bloggs, how do I get Joe Bloggs to appear as the users name?.
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Old 03-11-2002
Simply surround it with quotes.

Simple example:useradd -u 888 -g 14 -c"Joe User" juser
thehoghunter
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Old 03-11-2002
Computer That worked......Thanks!!!
I was just using single quotes - damn!!!

That worked perfectly - Monday morning just isnt a good time for my brain - its still in switched off mode!!
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