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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.syd.connect.com.au!phaedrus.kralizec.net.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!grumpy.fl.net.au!news.webspan.net!usenet From: gpalmer@mutara.noc.webspan.net (Gary Palmer) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Finger info and ppp.secret Date: 29 Jan 1997 00:47:57 GMT Organization: WebSpan Inc., New Jersey Lines: 29 Message-ID: <5cm6nt$ssn@news.webspan.net> References: <32eac505.39023468@nntp.cts.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: mutara.noc.webspan.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.8 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:34596 In article <32eac505.39023468@nntp.cts.com>, pkolding@cts.com (Peter Kolding) writes: > 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.) chfn > 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. Sorry, can't remember offhand (I haven't played with ppp for ages) > 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 alias f "find / -name \!* -print" works under tcsh and csh. Gary