From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.16-22 i686) Passwd -S is supposed to print summary information for a login name; instead, it claims it sets the passwd, but doesn't really. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Become root 2. # passwd -S [some-account-name] 3. Observe that is sets the password instead of printing account info. except that it doesn't really set the password either; it appears to do nothing. Actual Results: # passwd -S bbogus Changing passwd for user bbogus Password set. MD5 encryption Expected Results: What the man page says: -S This will output a short information about the sta- tus of the password for a given account. ...
passwd -S acts the same way with version 7.1 are there any actions being taken on resolving this.
This is fixed in recent releases. Closing this. cheers, Jindrich