On Wed, 22 Oct 2003, Alexander Rau (private) wrote: >I would like to add a real user name by running the following script in >the %post section but I can's get it to work. Any ideas why? > >dialog --title "Enter Name" --inputbox "Please enter your name" 8 60 >2>/tmp/name.$$ > >SEL=$? > >NA2=`cat /tmp/name.$$` >case $SEL in > 0) chfn -f $NA2 username ;; If my name is "Philip Rowlands" (which it is), this line reads: chfn -f Philip Rowlands username which probably tries to set the user "Rowlands" to have the full name "Philip", if it works at all. Try: chfn -f "$NA2" username or just replace the whole thing with: NAME=`dialog --title 'Enter Name' --inputbox 'Please enter your name' 8 60 2>&1` \ && chfn -f "$NAME" username Cheers, Phil
