[839] in Athena Bugs
chfn/finger
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (mar@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Wed Sep 7 15:49:12 1988
From: <mar@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Date: Wed, 7 Sep 88 15:47:54 EDT
To: henry@GARP.MIT.EDU
Cc: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, eichin@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, sms-bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Henry Mensch's message of Wed, 7 Sep 88 14:50:01 EDT <8809071850.AA07051@GARP.MIT.EDU>
chfn prompts for home address; finger doesn't show the information
though (neither does hesinfo username passwd)
_Mark_
This information is stored in the database, and may be used at some
point in the future. However, the standard password file does not
contain it, so we can't add it without breaking third-party
binary-only software.
-Mark
