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Why is it disabled to set the own full name? Well, the technical reason that it doesn't work seems to be the following line in /etc/login.defs:

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CHFN_RESTRICT           rwh

But what's the intention? Public sites often want people to show their full name (e.g. Usenet), why is it forbidden here?

Regards
Thomas

This has been enabled.

Tim wrote:This has been enabled.

Thanks!

Thomas

Becouse it is a SUID binary, and eventually may be security risk.

madcat wrote:Becouse it is a SUID binary, and eventually may be security risk.

I don't think that was the reason for the restriction, because the same binary had been working for setting room number, phone number a.s.o., but not for setting the name. Now even the latter works.

Thomas