[657] in Athena Bugs
passwd man page (5.5T AND 6.0C, VAX AND RT)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Carla Fermann)
Fri Aug 26 14:30:54 1988
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: cfyi@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 88 14:29:43 EDT
From: Carla Fermann <carla@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Hi! The passwd man page is way out of date...
A sample:
(from a 6.0C RT)
================================================================
PASSWD(1) UNIX Programmer's Manual PASSWD(1)
NAME
chfn, chsh, passwd - change password file information
SYNOPSIS
passwd [ -f ] [ -s ] [ name ]
DESCRIPTION
This command changes (or installs) a password, login shell
(-s option), or GECOS information field (-f option) associ-
ated with the user name (your own name by default).
================================================================
Needless to say, this hasn't been correct for quite a while, for both
the RT's and the vax.
Some of the things wrong are:
* The current usage of passwd is:
Usage: passwd [-name name] [-inst inst]
Also, we use kerberos now, so passwd only deals with passwords.
* chfn should have its own, updated, man page
* chhome (referred to on the vax version of the man page) doesn't
exist anymore. The reference to it should be deleted, please.
Basically, the man page for passwd (which deals with kerberos) should
be separated from the man pages for chsh, chfn, etc (which deal with
sms).
Thanks!
Carla
