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From: csbruce@ccnga.uwaterloo.ca (CraigDude)
Subject: Re: Test
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Date: Sun, 13 Aug 1995 19:03:52 GMT

Lisa Scudder  <lscudder@ic.sunysb.edu> writes:

>Im trying to find a way of changing my username in UNIX...this is a 
>test...if it says "Lisa Scudder" Im still screwed up..I tried: set 
>USERNAME, set USER, set NAME, so if this doesnt work I dunno what to 
>do...Im open to suggestions...

Try the "chfn" command (CHange Finger Name):

$ chfn
Changing finger information for csbruce on ccnga.
Default values are printed inside of '[]'.
To accept the default, type <return>.
To have a blank entry, type the word 'none'

Name [Craig Bruce]: CraigDude
Room number (Ex: MC5160) [DC3509]: DC3509
Office Phone (Ex: x1632) [x3509]: x3509
Home Phone (Ex: 987-5432) [+1-519-747-0850]: +1-519-747-0850
Home Address (Ex: 5-123 Sesame St., Somewhere) []:
$

(The prompts that you get may be different, but you get the idea).

Keep on Hackin'!

-Craig Bruce
csbruce@ccnga.uwaterloo.ca
"The once-proud apostrophe: the great victim of our illiterate time."