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authorGerard Beekmans <gerard@linuxfromscratch.org>2003-05-13 07:23:32 +0000
committerGerard Beekmans <gerard@linuxfromscratch.org>2003-05-13 07:23:32 +0000
commit0c418fcb89f74d6960cdb58a81801671ed4acb7b (patch)
tree96b7758400ab9dcbab57928b87d8a7e76164a16b /chapter06/shadowpwd-inst.xml
parent668813fb56bf035819d6301add7122a7ea67d0aa (diff)
Applied Zack's shadow patch
git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@2604 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
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@@ -21,6 +21,16 @@ following commands:</para>
<para><screen><userinput>touch /var/run/utmp /var/log/{btmp,lastlog,wtmp} &amp;&amp;
chmod 644 /var/run/utmp /var/log/{btmp,lastlog,wtmp}</userinput></screen></para>
+<para>Shadow hard-codes the path to the passwd binary within itself, but
+it does it the wrong way. If no passwd binary is present before
+installing Shadow, it (wrongly) assumes that it will be at /bin/passwd,
+but then installs its own in /usr/bin/passwd. This will lead to strange
+errors about not finding /bin/passwd. To fix workaround this bug in
+Shadow, we'll create a dummy passwd file so that it gets hardcoded in
+the right place:</para>
+
+<para><screen><userinput>touch /usr/bin/passwd</userinput></screen></para>
+
<para>Prepare Shadow to be compiled:</para>
<para><screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib \