Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!uccba!uceng!kamat From: kamat@uceng.UC.EDU (Govind N. Kamat) Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp Subject: Re: chfn(1) bug in HPUX 6.2 Message-ID: Date: 10 Sep 89 19:44:39 GMT References: <242@zircon.UUCP> Sender: kamat@uceng.UC.EDU Organization: College of Engg., University of Cincinnati Lines: 24 In-reply-to: davidb@Pacer.UUCP's message of 14 Aug 89 15:33:08 GMT In article <242@zircon.UUCP> davidb@Pacer.UUCP (David Barts) writes: I have discovered a bug in th HP-UX 6.2 chfn command. If you have any accounts with password aging in effect, chfn will zap the ages from /etc/passwd when it is run. This irritating bug has been around for quite some time; I think we reported it more than a year ago... I'm not exactly sure why HP is dragging its feet on correcting it. In any case, the fix is rather minor and I can make it available if anyone wishes. Thanks in advance and sorry if this one has already been reported to the net. Yes, it has :-) -- David Barts Pacer Corporation davidb@pacer.uucp ...!fluke!pacer!davidb -- Govind N. Kamat College of Engineering kamat@uceng.UC.EDU University of Cincinnati Cincinnati, OH 45221, USA