Bug 43756

Summary: chpass(1) manual unclear about alternate name behavior
Product: Documentation Reporter: Gary W. Swearingen <swear>
Component: Books & ArticlesAssignee: Tom Rhodes <trhodes>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me    
Priority: Normal    
Version: Latest   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   
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Description Gary W. Swearingen 2002-10-07 05:40:02 UTC 
The chpass(1) manual is unclear about whether, for example, chfn(1) and
chsh(1) behave the same as each other and chpass(1), or if the manual is
just incomplete about their possible differing behavior.  (It's rather
hard to believe that "chfn" and "chsh" do the same thing, without it being
stated more explicitly than just that they are linked to chpass.)

Also, the descriptions of most of the commands in the "NAME" section are
inappropriately relegated to a "NOTES" section near the end of the
manual, instead of in the "DESCRIPTIONS" section.

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Fix: In
$FreeBSD: src/usr.bin/chpass/chpass.1,v 1.23.2.8 2002/06/20 23:45:22 charnier Exp $
move the description and say that the commands behave identically.
How-To-Repeat: n/a
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Comment 1 Tom Rhodes freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2002-12-20 01:17:34 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: open->patched

Patched in current and I'll MFC soon.  Thanks for the submission!
Comment 2 Tom Rhodes freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2002-12-20 01:17:34 UTC 
Responsible Changed
From-To: freebsd-doc->trhodes

Patched in current and I'll MFC soon.  Thanks for the submission!
Comment 3 Tom Rhodes freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2002-12-20 18:22:18 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: patched->closed

MFC Complete!  Thanks for the submission!