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UNIX:  "Last logged in..." record  is unique for each machine


Q.  I know about .plan and .office files but why doesn't my finger info
    reflect when I last logged in?  I am a slip user but I do telnet over to
    coho.halcyon.com occasionaly and I assumed that that would update it.

A.  We currently have three UNIX machines that you can log into:

         halcyon
         coho
         chinook

    Each of these machines keeps track of when you've logged onto it...not
    when you've logged on to the others.  So if you finger your login name
    on halcyon:

         halcyon_61> finger leo
         .
         .
         .
         Login name: leo                    In real life: Leo N. Schowengerdt
         Office:  IV
         Directory: /j/leo                  Shell: /bin/csh
         Never logged in.
         No Plan.


    ...it looks like you've never logged in -- because you haven't logged
    in to halcyon.  But if you run the finger command on coho, the results
    look different:

         halcyon_62> rsh coho finger leo
         Login name: leo                    In real life: Leo N. Schowengerdt
         Office:  IV
         Directory: /j/leo                  Shell: /bin/csh
         Last login Wed Oct 26 17:39 on ttyq3 from blv-pm2-ip13.hal
         No Plan.

    You'll also notice in the second example that "Office" is listed as "IV";
    that's because your name is listed in the password file as:

         leo:HhHKQstJ3yJik:7597:100:Leo N. Schowengerdt, IV:/j/leo:/bin/csh

    Note the comma in the fifth field, the Real Name field.  The comma is
    used to separate the various items that you can put in your Real Name
    field; for example, look at mine:

  mjt:2k6FF9LEvMSYo:3990:100:Michael - Tech Support,,206.455.3505,:/j/mjt:/bin/csh

    Then compare it to what it produces when you type "finger mjt":

         Login name: mjt                     In real life: Michael - Tech
         Support     Phone: 206.455.3505
         Directory: /j/mjt                   Shell: /bin/csh
         On since Oct 26 20:53:52 on ttypf from deadhead.halcyon
         11 minutes Idle Time
         No Plan.

    So, how do you change your finger entry so that, say, it doesn't include
    the errant comma?  At the shell prompt, type:

         chfn

    ...and follow the prompts.

                                                                                                                                      (11-Apr-96/unilliri/WRD)
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