[Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#951480: Misleading status message when lock password with "--lock"

[Chris Hofstaedtler]

On Mon, Feb 17, 2020 at 10:57:40AM +0100, Brian Wengel wrote:
> When using the option "--lock", passwd will print the following status
> message:
> "passwd: password expiry information changed."

Current versions (1:4.16.0-7) print:

root at ec99eb36d4c1:/# passwd --lock root
passwd: password changed.

I guess that is "correct" on some level, but still meh.