[Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#146779: marked as forwarded (passwd: --help should have more details)

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has caused the Debian Bug report #146779,
regarding passwd: --help should have more details
to be marked as having been forwarded to the upstream software
author(s) Tomasz Kłoczko <kloczek@zie.pg.gda.pl>.

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Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 18:33:35 +0200
From: Christian Perrier <bubulle@debian.org>
To: Tomasz =?utf-8?Q?K=C5=82oczko?= <kloczek@zie.pg.gda.pl>
Cc: 146779-forwarded@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Passwd online help seems to be too terse
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Tomasz, in http://bugs.debian.org/146779, the bug submitter mentions
that passwd online "help" is really too terse (and indeed lacks the
support of "--help").

Could it be enhanced so that it mentions all possible uses of passwd,
which are detailed in the man page?



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