Package: passwd Version: 20000902-12woody1 Program chfn does not work as documented in its man page.
The man page says any normal user can update, for his own user account, the "fullname" part of the GCOS field. That is not true in Debian-Woody for the chfn command and the "fullname" part of any normal user account GCOS field. (I don't have Debian-Sarge here but it is trivial to try whether this bug is there too or not.) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat /etc/passwd | grep jgomez1 jgomez1:x:1000:1000:Jonay Gomez,,,:/home/jgomez1:/bin/bash [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ who am i jgomez1 pts/7 Apr 12 22:15 (tecra:S.5) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ chfn -f "Perico Palotes" jgomez1 chfn: Permission denied. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ The man page for chfn has to say "A normal user may only change the fields for their own account, except the fullname part", or else allow the chfn command for any user to update his own fullname information for his own account. These are passwd package dependencies and their versions on this system: ii libc6 2.2.5-11.8 GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone data ii libpam0g 0.72-35 Pluggable Authentication Modules library ii login 20000902-12woody1 System login tools ii libpam-modules 0.72-35 Pluggable Authentication Modules for PAM ii passwd 20000902-12woody1 Change and administer password and group data. -- Jonay Gómez [EMAIL PROTECTED]
