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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in1.uu.net!207.67.253.7!atmnet.net!newshub.cts.com!news From: pkolding@cts.com (Peter Kolding) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Finger info and ppp.secret Date: Sun, 26 Jan 1997 04:43:30 GMT Organization: CTS Network Services Lines: 28 Message-ID: <32eac505.39023468@nntp.cts.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: pkolding.cts.com X-Newsreader: Forte Agent .99d/32.182 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:34063 A couple of newbie questions: Running FreeBSD 2.1.5R how do I: 1. Edit the information that appears when a username is fingered? Also, along the same lines, how do I edit the username, Fullname etc. for a user? (I know about passwd, but that doesn't address changing the other things, so far as I can see.) 2. What is the correct format for ppp.secret? I've got ppp -auto going fine, but nothing I enter in ppp.secret seems to prevent any user from using the program to its full extent. I'd rather limit access to dialing and hanging up the modem to just the superuser. 3. Highly embarrassing: I cannot get an alias for: find / -name "command-line argument" -print in my .cshrc file to work at all. I just want to be able to type: f sysconfig for instance, and have the whole tree searched for the file. I know I've got the $argv[1] entry wrong somehow, but no amount of chopping and changing produces the result I want. Any and all help gratefully accepted.