From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jan 18 01:53:30 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id BAA17961 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 18 Jan 1996 01:53:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id BAA17898 for ; Thu, 18 Jan 1996 01:52:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id KAA20909; Thu, 18 Jan 1996 10:51:58 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id KAA21983; Thu, 18 Jan 1996 10:51:58 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.3/8.6.9) id KAA05870; Thu, 18 Jan 1996 10:41:05 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199601180941.KAA05870@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: user management stuff To: witr@rwwa.com (Robert Withrow) Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 10:41:03 +0100 (MET) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199601180116.UAA08913@spooky.rwwa.com> from "Robert Withrow" at Jan 17, 96 08:16:15 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As Robert Withrow wrote: > > > > 3) chpass -p doesn't seem to work at all. > > > > That seems to work just fine for me in -current. > > Can you give me a (shrouded) example, just to rule out > operator error on my part, for 2.1? Or, do the > commit logs indicate a bug fix in this area? If you look into the source, the fix is obvious. Compile without YP defined, or move the YP initialization up two dozen lines before the option evaluation. I'm too lazy to make you a diff for it. :-) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)