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