On Tue, 13 Apr 1999, John Hegarty wrote:
> I have installed SuSE 6 , and now no user except root can access chfn , it
> asks for a password, it is not the root password , user password , user
Quick and nasty hack if you are really stuck is to take the _x_ from
the passwd file for a user, run chfn, then put the _x_ back in passwd.
Andy Ferguson
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