[Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#499578: passwd can't do everything passwd(1) says it can

[Nicolas François]

tags 499578 fixed-upstream
thanks

Hello,

On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 12:32:31AM +0100, rrt at femur.dyndns.org wrote:
> passwd(1) says:
> 
> passwd also changes account information, such as the full name of the
> user, the users login shell, or his/her password expiry date and
> interval.
> 
> But as far as I can see it can't change the shell (that would be chsh)
> or the full name (chfn).

Thanks for reporting it.
passwd used to have options to call chfn / chsh, but they do not exist
anymore (since a long time).

I changed this sentence upstream to:
	passwd also changes the account or associated password validity
	period.

Best Regards,
-- 
Nekral