diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index ac1aecc8..23547514 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,6 +1,11 @@
+2009-04-11  Peter Vrabec  <pvrabec@redhat.com>
+
+	* src/useradd.c (get_defaults): Close the default file after the
+	default values were read.
+
 2009-04-11  Christian Perrier  <bubulle@debian.org>
 
-	* Slovak translation updated. Thanks to Ivan Masár
+	* po/sk.po: Slovak translation updated. Thanks to Ivan Masár
 
 2009-04-11  Nicolas François  <nicolas.francois@centraliens.net>
 
diff --git a/src/useradd.c b/src/useradd.c
index 3bc10774..476587d7 100644
--- a/src/useradd.c
+++ b/src/useradd.c
@@ -381,6 +381,7 @@ static void get_defaults (void)
 			def_create_mail_spool = xstrdup (cp);
 		}
 	}
+	(void) fclose (fp);
 }
 
 /*