From owner-freebsd-bugs Sat Mar 16 16:40:04 1996 Return-Path: owner-bugs Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id QAA10660 for bugs-outgoing; Sat, 16 Mar 1996 16:40:04 -0800 (PST) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id QAA10653 Sat, 16 Mar 1996 16:40:02 -0800 (PST) Resent-Date: Sat, 16 Mar 1996 16:40:02 -0800 (PST) Resent-Message-Id: <199603170040.QAA10653@freefall.freebsd.org> Resent-From: gnats (GNATS Management) Resent-To: freebsd-bugs Resent-Reply-To: FreeBSD-gnats@freefall.FreeBSD.org, jehamby@lightside.com Received: from hamby1.lightside.net (hamby1.lightside.net [198.81.209.17]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA10208 for ; Sat, 16 Mar 1996 16:30:41 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jehamby@localhost) by hamby1.lightside.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) id QAA00357; Sat, 16 Mar 1996 16:32:44 -0800 Message-Id: <199603170032.QAA00357@hamby1.lightside.net> Date: Sat, 16 Mar 1996 16:32:44 -0800 From: jehamby@lightside.com Reply-To: jehamby@lightside.com To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org X-Send-Pr-Version: 3.2 Subject: bin/1083: "chsh -s" doesn't work in 2.1.0-RELEASE Sender: owner-bugs@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >Number: 1083 >Category: bin >Synopsis: "chsh -s" doesn't work in 2.1.0-RELEASE >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Sat Mar 16 16:40:01 PST 1996 >Last-Modified: >Originator: Jake Hamby >Organization: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jake Hamby | E-Mail: jehamby@lightside.com Student, Cal Poly University, Pomona | System Administrator, JPL ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >Release: FreeBSD 2.1-STABLE i386 >Environment: 2.1.0-RELEASE with 2.1-STABLE kernel. 486DX4/100 with 24MB RAM. >Description: The "chsh" command by itself works correctly (brings up an editor with shell and GECOS info), but changing just the shell with a line like "chsh -s tcsh" (as documented in the man page) appears to update the password file: chsh: rebuilding the database... chsh: done But the password field is still the same. >How-To-Repeat: Just try it: "chsh -s " >Fix: Dunno.. Haven't looked at the source code. It may be already fixed in -stable or -current. >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: