News regarding the chsh, and chfn commands on AIX

New versions of the chsh and chfn commands have been installed on AIX
because the old versions caused corruption of the system password
database.  The new commands are available only on the AIX site "zeus"
and must be run there.

Once changes to the password database are made on zeus, they will be
replicated to the rest of the cluster within fifteen minutes.

The command chsh allows a user to change their default login shell to
one of the shells supported by the system.  Supported shells include
/bin/sh, /bin/csh, /bin/ksh, and /bin/tcsh.

The command chfn allows the user to change the "finger" information, or
gcos field in the password database.  It allows for the addition of
office locations and phone numbers.  Please remember, that when
modifying the name field, that the name field must contain your name as
it appears on your ID card as well as any nickname you wish to add in
quotes or parentheses.  Please refer to the system policy "AIX System
Policies" ... "User Name Policies (Finger Name)" under the policy
command for more information.