USERINFO(1)

💖 USERINFO(1) 💖

okay bestie, so this is userinfo from the General Commands Manual section, and she is serving convenience. pull up a chair 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

userinfo — it's giving graphical equivalent of chfn, no cap. (the original page spells it "equivilient" and honestly? iconic typo, we love her, we're keeping the energy 🎀)

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

userinfo [ options ]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so like. userinfo is a graphical tool that lets users change their finger information — you know, the lil info blob that finger shows off about you — except you get to do it with buttons and windows instead of yelling into a terminal. convenient? yes. slay? absolutely. 💅

👑 OPTIONS 👑

okay so here's the tea, bestie: this program has no command line options of its own. none. zero. it's an icon, it doesn't need flags. 🙈

BUT — and this is the important part — it does take the standard X program options, things like -display and such. so if you need those, go read the X(1) man page, it lists out some of the common ones for you. iykyk ✨

• -display and such — standard X program options, covered over in X(1). not userinfo's own flags, she's just borrowing them.

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

go be nosy, these are the siblings:

• chfn(1)
• finger(1)
• passwd(5)

💀 BUGS 💀

bestie. listen. currently it does not give feedback to the user when the helper fails. like, things such as incorrect passwords and such — you just get silence. 🫠 the void. the abyss. nothing.

fr fr, no error, no warning, no vibe check — it just doesn't tell you. the page says the next iteration should fix this bug, so hold on tight and manifest it with me 🕯️✨

🧚 AUTHOR 🧚

Otto Hammersmith <otto@redhat.com> — thank you king, we are obsessed 👑

and that's the whole page, babe! 🌸 this lil masterpiece is brought to you by Red Hat Software, dated 6 October 1997 — yes she's vintage, yes she still ate 💖✨ go change your finger info, you main character 🦋💅