On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 11:47:49AM +0000, Stephen Gran wrote:

> Aha!.  So it des set the gecos field.  So, basically all of my analysis
> was wrong.  Thanks for investigating.  I now think, although I could be
> wrong, that the problem is that the pam chfn file is not yet set up, so
> root doesn't have passwordless ability to set gecos fields.  So, this is
> not a password prompt for the user's password, it's a pam prompt for the
> root password for permission to run chfn.

That's correct.

Cheers,
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