Somewhere along the line, somebody decided to make the 'full name' field

restricted. Am I the only one who sees the absurdity of having chfn be
a link to chpass, and then denying users permission to use chpass to
change their full names?

Of course, chpass has a much more severe bug in it, which is that it
allows users to change their password database info without first
asking them for their password. I hope to fix this at some point
so that I can merge ypchpass, ypchfn, ypchsh and chpass into one
program (password authentication is required for changing NIS data).

diff --git a/chpass/table.c b/chpass/table.c
index c6b76b36bd10aca39aa800bf74518745a03b7c61..46a12d180528e2702b325273d8eba5f689e60fee 100644 (file)
--- a/chpass/table.c
+++ b/chpass/table.c
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ ENTRY list[] = {
        { "class",              p_class,  1,   5, e1,   },
        { "change",             p_change, 1,   6, NULL, },
        { "expire",             p_expire, 1,   6, NULL, },
-       { "full name",          p_gecos,  1,   9, e2,   },
+       { "full name",          p_gecos,  0,   9, e2,   },
        { "office phone",       p_gecos,  0,  12, e2,   },
        { "home phone",         p_gecos,  0,  10, e2,   },
        { "location",           p_gecos,  0,   8, e2,   },