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From: wescott@Columbia.NCR.COM (Mike Wescott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ncr
Subject: Re: chsh broken
Keywords: chsh chfn broken
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Date: 18 Jan 90 18:32:29 GMT
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In article <6186@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu> bt455s10@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Carl "Art" McIntosh) writes:
> The commands chsh and chfn in /usr/ucb under OS 2.01.00 seem broken,

Yep. It is..

> The chsh NCR is using seems to behave awfully
> similar to the one posted to the net a while back

It's the same one.

> the /etc/zoneinfo junk looks alot like
> the tz package posted to the net by ado@ncifcrf.gov ....

Again, we used ado's software.  However, we have not deliberately
slighted anyone.  It is difficult to introduce PD software into the
product and to make sure that proper credit appears in the documentation.
We could do a better job there.

> Below is the chsh/chfn package from the net I mentioned above,
> already fixed to check the user's *name* instead of the UID,

Thanks, I'll see that your fix gets implemented.

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	-Mike Wescott
	 mike.wescott@ncrcae.Columbia.NCR.COM