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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
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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