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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!netnews.upenn.edu!dsinc!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.sprintlink.net!news1.is.net!news From: jason@webmaster.net (Jason R. Mastaler) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: CHPASS and VIPW not working [BSD/OS 2.0] Date: 02 Feb 1996 14:36:39 -0500 Organization: Atlanta Webmasters Lines: 33 Sender: jason@xxx.webmaster.net Message-ID: <x520odbjug.fsf@xxx.webmaster.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: xxx.webmaster.net X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.0.13 A while back I posted to this group about a problem I am having with some of my BSD/OS 2.0.1 systems, The "chpass" and "vipw"commands do not work on a few of my systems but work fine on others. When I run the chpass command on some systems, all I get back is a "no changes made" message instead of being put into an editor for changes. bsd:~> chpass jason chpass: no changes made Similarily, the vipw command returns an error message instead of launching an editor for making changes. vipw: editing /etc/pw.025344: Undefined error: 0 On other systems, these commands works perfectly. Last time I asked about this, I received a number of responses indicating that this was a known problem under BSD/OS, and there was a patch to fix it. 2 problems with this. First, on machines that have IDENTICAL patches installed, one will work, and another wont. Second, I can't find a patch in the patch index that addresses these problems. Don't confuse this problem with users not being able to change their passwords with the "passwd" command. Patch U200-013 took care of this. So if anyone knows why this might be happening, I would really appreciate knowning about it. I find it convenient to edit the user database information with an editor and a safe check. Thanks much. Jason R. Mastaler -- jason@webmaster.net