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From: Ted Mittelstaedt - God Of Thunder <tedm@previewsystems.com>
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Subject: Chpass command description unclear on gecos field
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>Number:         7533
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       Chpass command description unclear on gecos field
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-doc
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sat Aug  8 22:20:00 PDT 1998
>Closed-Date:    Mon Feb 22 20:41:41 CST 1999
>Last-Modified:  Mon Nov 24 12:17:10 PST 2003
>Originator:     Ted Mittelstaedt
>Release:        FreeBSD 3.0-980520-SNAP i386
>Organization:
Portland Software 
>Environment:

	

>Description:

	

Chpass, finger, and manpage 5 of password differ on gecos field description

>How-To-Repeat:

	


Read manual page of chpass

Explanation:

The #5 page of the manual for passwd explains the gecos field as follows:

fullname
office
wphone
hphone

The #1 page of manual page for chpass lists display items as such:

Full Name:
Location:
Home Phone:
Office Phone:

The output of the Finger command lists:

Office: (office, wphone)      Home Phone: (hphone)


While this is a minor nit, Chpass refers to (office) as "Location:"
while finger displays it as "Office:"


>Fix:
	
	

Reword the manual page for chpass to clarify that the labels used by
the chpass program and it's manual page are not the identical labels
displayed by the output of the "finger" command.  Or, alternatively,
rewrite the chpass command to accept user environment input in the
same format that finger displays it in.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open->suspended 
State-Changed-By: phk 
State-Changed-When: Mon Aug 10 00:26:18 PDT 1998 
State-Changed-Why:  
awaiting document fixes & committer 


Responsible-Changed-From-To: gnats-admin->freebsd-doc@freebsd-org 
Responsible-Changed-By: phk 
Responsible-Changed-When: Mon Aug 10 00:26:18 PDT 1998 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
State-Changed-From-To: suspended->closed 
State-Changed-By: ghelmer 
State-Changed-When: Mon Feb 22 20:41:41 CST 1999 
State-Changed-Why:  
A hopefully sufficient set of changes was committed. 
Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd-org->freebsd-doc 
Responsible-Changed-By: ceri 
Responsible-Changed-When: Mon Nov 24 12:16:43 PST 2003 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
Lint the Responsible field. 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=7533 
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