Quoting Nicolas François ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hello, > > I don't think it is really a bug. > > The chfn man page indicates that "If none of the options are selected, > chfn operates in an interactive fashion, prompting the user with the > current values for all of the fields." > The "interactive fashion" means that it will hang and wait for the user's > input. > > If you intend to use chfn in a script, you should use the [-f full_name] > [-r room_no] [-w work_ph] [-h home_ph] [-o other] options.
Funnily, stdin can still be used as input to chfn (and, I guess, chsh) as I showed in my example. The output is a bit ugly because the prompts are still sent to stdout, but it does the job. I propose closing this bug report.
