SUMMARY: User Information

From: Gil Renard <gilrenard_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 10:12:53 -0800 (PST)

Dear managers:

        Once again I want to thank to all of you, and specially to: Mike
Plante, Nestor Ruiz, Phil Farrell, Stan Horwitz, Brian Hostetter and
Salvador Ramirez.

        My problem was I have to restrict the user's ability to change their
information (name, office, phone, etc).

        In general this were two solutions:

        - Change permissions to the chfn program, but because chfn is a hard
link to passwd, if I make this the users can't change their passwords!

        - Erase the chfn command, but if I make this users can use passwd -f
to chage their information.

        - Comment the line:
siad_chg_finger=(OSFC2,/usr/shlib/libsecurity.so) in the file
/etc/sia/matrix.conf. The only inconvenience is that no one can change
users information, not even root.

                                        Gil Renard


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