Re: gnome-about-me

[Chipzz <chipzz ULYSSIS Org>]

This was brought up earlier, but allow me to repeat it:
man login.defs and look for CHFN_RESTRICT.

On Tue, 2 Aug 2005, Ronald S. Bultje wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Tue, 2 Aug 2005, Chipzz wrote:
> > > Another thing that struck me as odd on it is that it doesn't ask me
> > > for my name at all! The name is what would actually be useful
> > > information. An example of its use would be in gaim to automatically
> >
> > But it *DOES* know your name! It's in /etc/passwd! (or in LDAP; anyway
> > the point is that there are existing UNIX API's to get that information)
>
> So it should make that editable (ok, so there's a permission problem here,
> but still). I'd expect it to do that.
>
> Ronald

kr,

Chipzz AKA
Jan Van Buggenhout
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