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| author | Benno Schulenberg | 2015-11-08 11:54:14 +0100 |
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| committer | Karel Zak | 2015-11-09 10:03:58 +0100 |
| commit | 1e6a9c1814fa512846da611d9ddd631d5ff4fcbd (patch) | |
| tree | a86cac4b426ee1111939be199d0472f62deaeeaf /login-utils/chfn.1 | |
| parent | hexdump: fix a typo and tweak some wordings in the manpage (diff) | |
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chfn: improve formatting and wording of the manpage
Signed-off-by: Benno Schulenberg <bensberg@justemail.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'login-utils/chfn.1')
| -rw-r--r-- | login-utils/chfn.1 | 21 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/login-utils/chfn.1 b/login-utils/chfn.1 index d5210b16e..0cb5f28b8 100644 --- a/login-utils/chfn.1 +++ b/login-utils/chfn.1 @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ .\" modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License. .\" There is no warranty. .\" -.TH CHFN 1 "July 2014" "util-linux" "User Commands" +.TH CHFN 1 "November 2015" "util-linux" "User Commands" .SH NAME chfn \- change your finger information .SH SYNOPSIS @@ -78,21 +78,20 @@ distributed with another package (e.g. shadow-utils). The following configuration items are relevant for .BR chfn (1): .PP -.B CHFN_RESTRICT -(string) +.BI CHFN_RESTRICT " string" .RS 4 Indicate which fields are changeable by \fBchfn\fR. -The boolean setting "yes" means that Office, Office Phone and Home Phone items -are changeable and boolean setting "no" means that Full Name, Office, Office -Phone and Home Phone are changeable. +The boolean setting \fB"yes"\fR means that only the Office, Office Phone and +Home Phone fields are changeable, and boolean setting \fB"no"\fR means that +also the Full Name is changeable. -The another way is to specify changeable fields by abbreviations, f = -Full Name, r = Office (room), w = Office (work) Phone, h = Home Phone. For -example CHFN_RESTRICT "wh" allows to change work and home phone numbers. +Another way to specify changeable fields is by abbreviations: f = Full Name, +r = Office (room), w = Office (work) Phone, h = Home Phone. For example, +\fBCHFN_RESTRICT "wh"\fR allows changing work and home phone numbers. -If the CHFN_RESTRICT is undefined then all finger information are read-only. -This is default. +If CHFN_RESTRICT is undefined, then all finger information is read-only. +This is the default. .RE .PP .SH "EXIT STATUS" |