"Todd C. Miller" <[email protected]> writes:

> This comes up periodically with users being confused when running
> passwd after su changes the passwd of the user they came from.

Indeed.  ok jca@

> Index: usr.bin/passwd/passwd.1
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvs/src/usr.bin/passwd/passwd.1,v
> retrieving revision 1.41
> diff -u -p -u -r1.41 passwd.1
> --- usr.bin/passwd/passwd.1   2 Nov 2014 05:25:09 -0000       1.41
> +++ usr.bin/passwd/passwd.1   15 Jul 2015 15:40:59 -0000
> @@ -42,6 +42,10 @@
>  .Sh DESCRIPTION
>  .Nm
>  changes the user's local or YP password.
> +If no
> +.Ar user
> +is specified, the user's login name is used (see
> +.Xr logname 1 ) .
>  First, the user is prompted for their current password.
>  If the current password is correctly typed, a new password is requested.
>  The new password must be entered twice to avoid typing errors.
> @@ -129,7 +133,7 @@ file to clear the error.
>  .Sh SEE ALSO
>  .Xr chpass 1 ,
>  .Xr encrypt 1 ,
> -.Xr login 1 ,
> +.Xr logname 1 ,
>  .Xr login.conf 5 ,
>  .Xr passwd 5 ,
>  .Xr pwd_mkdb 8 ,
>

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