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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Problem with CHPASS?
Date: 27 May 1996 10:41:43 GMT
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
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Brook Schofield <Brook@tassie.net.au> wrote:

> chpass -p $1$thotuh$htnhut brook

Despite of the other valid followups mentioning the need to escape the
dollar signs from the shell, all the -s/-p/-a options have been broken
in stock 2.1R when YP was also enabled.  This has been fixed in
-current and -stable.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)