Linux chfn Command Tutorial for Beginners (6 Examples)

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Himanshu Arora
Aug 22, 2018

A user in Linux has a lot of information associated with it, including home and office phone numbers, office room number, and more. We usually skip filling this information (as it’s all optional) while creating a user. But did you know there exists a command that lets you tweak all this information?

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Himanshu Arora

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