adding description to user account

anon091 · 08-20-2009, 10:24 AM

I did an adduser to create a new account, but i forgot to add a description to the account, so it just looks like this when i look at the passwd file. how can i go back and add one? all my other accounts have descriptions after the two numbers.

testuser:x:512:512::/home/testuser:/bin/bash

vikas027 · 08-20-2009, 10:28 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rjo98

I did an adduser to create a new account, but i forgot to add a description to the account, so it just looks like this when i look at the passwd file. how can i go back and add one? all my other accounts have descriptions after the two numbers.

testuser:x:512:512::/home/testuser:/bin/bash

Code:

usermod -c "your description" testuser

where c = comment

anon091 · 08-20-2009, 10:30 AM

thanks!!

anon091 · 08-20-2009, 10:35 AM

when i do that i get a command not found error. i even switched to usr/sbin then ran it.

chrism01 · 08-20-2009, 07:24 PM

1. did you login as root to do that?
2. you can 'su - user' and use the chfn cmd http://linux.die.net/man/1/chfn
3. Personally, for a one-off I'd just edit the /etc/passwd file directly in vi/vim

anon091 · 08-21-2009, 08:00 AM

i wasn't logged in as root, but i did a su instead of just a su -. I'm staying away from vi for now because i always forget how to use it, i miss my notepad.exe in windows LOL