This bug was fixed in the package shadow - 1:4.2-3.1ubuntu6 --------------- shadow (1:4.2-3.1ubuntu6) yakkety; urgency=medium
* add support for "chfn --extrausers" (LP: #1495580) -- Michael Vogt <[email protected]> Thu, 23 Jun 2016 08:02:00 +0200 ** Changed in: shadow (Ubuntu) Status: In Progress => Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to shadow in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1495580 Title: chfn needs to learn about the --extrausers argument and use libnss- extrausers files when set Status in Snappy: Fix Released Status in shadow package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in shadow source package in Xenial: Confirmed Bug description: as seen in bug 1492327, adduser now works for creating users in the extrausers db but when it tries to update the GECOS field at the end of adding a user (interactively and noninteractively) chfn falls over ... chfn needs similar patches to the other shadow binaries that recently got extrausers support. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/snappy/+bug/1495580/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

