problems with chsh

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From: Frank Maas
Date: Tue, 07 Jan 1992 15:47

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Hello all,

We have a nice problem and like to share it with you :-)

Whenever a user uses 'chsh' (change shell), the last 'h' gets chopped! For in-
stance:

$ chsh /bin/csh
$ grep I_the_user /thePasswdDir/passwd
I_the_user:aaaaaaaaaaaaa:1111:1111:My Real Name:/My/Dir:/bin/cs

Nice don't you think? This results in a 'No Shell'-error the next time the user
logs in. So for the time being we have disabled 'chsh', but we'd like to know if
somebody knows a workaround.

If so: please e-mail to the address mentioned below. Thanks

~~ Frank Maas )))((( maas@dutiws.tudelft.nl )))((( TU Delft, The Netherlands ~~

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From: maas@dutiws.tudelft.nl (Frank Maas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sequent,comp.unix.misc,alt.sources
Subject: problems with chsh
Summary: chsh chops 'h'
Keywords: chsh, unix, sequent
Message-ID: <675@dutiws.tudelft.nl>
Date: 7 Jan 92 15:47:00 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.sequent
Organization: Delft University of Technology
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