[Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#341230: passwd: Partial changes with chfn other values

Nicolas François nicolas.francois at centraliens.net
Tue Nov 29 21:05:24 UTC 2005


retitle 341230 [TO CLOSE 20051211] passwd: Partial changes with chfn other values
thanks

Hello,

On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 01:28:51PM +0100, Christian.Gennerat at m4x.org wrote:
> 
> When a chfn is done by root, to change only one value,
> other values are taken from the root-gecos

> ii  libpam-modules                0.76-22    Pluggable Authentication Modules f
                                    ^^^^^^^
That is the reason.

I could reproduce it with libpam-modules 0.76-22, and could not with
0.79-3.

You should update this package.

I'm not closing this bug since I would like to investigate a little bit
more (I will close it in 1 or 2 weeks).

Kind Regards,
-- 
Nekral




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