COMMAND chfn SYSTEMS AFFECTED OpenBSD 2.7 PROBLEM Riley Hassell found following. OPENBSD chsh,chfn locking issue: chfn, Control+Z to through it in the background, then kill the process leaving the stale lock-file /etc/ptmp. Now users cannot execute chsh, chfn. SOLUTION In this case it's just: rm -rf /etc/ptmp