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| author | Alex Gronenwoud <alex@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2003-10-22 22:26:46 +0000 |
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| committer | Alex Gronenwoud <alex@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2003-10-22 22:26:46 +0000 |
| commit | 360e2c43cd050de14a654927da9a7610af9e38ce (patch) | |
| tree | fa36484dc5954a41335c6ec7ddf0b305c020129d /chapter06/shadowpwd-inst.xml | |
| parent | 1612f40eb9f1b8ea766ea308e40d6b3fe14f6fc5 (diff) | |
Adding some markup and doing miscellaneous shuffles.
git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@3029 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
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1 files changed, 6 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/chapter06/shadowpwd-inst.xml b/chapter06/shadowpwd-inst.xml index c6ef2893b..ecdfded3e 100644 --- a/chapter06/shadowpwd-inst.xml +++ b/chapter06/shadowpwd-inst.xml @@ -1,18 +1,15 @@ <sect2><title> </title><para> </para></sect2> <sect2> -<title>Installation of Shadow Password Suite</title> +<title>Installation of Shadow</title> <para>The <userinput>login</userinput>, <userinput>getty</userinput> and <userinput>init</userinput> programs (and some others) maintain a number of logfiles to record who are and who were logged in to the system. These programs, however, don't create these logfiles when they don't exist, so if you want this logging to occur you will have to create the files yourself. -To let the Shadow package (that is installed next) detect these files in their -proper place, create them now, with their proper permissions:</para> - -<para>Create these files with their proper permissions by running the -following commands:</para> +The Shadow package needs to detect these files in their proper place, so we +create them now, with their proper permissions:</para> <screen><userinput>touch /var/run/utmp /var/log/{btmp,lastlog,wtmp} chmod 644 /var/run/utmp /var/log/{btmp,lastlog,wtmp}</userinput></screen> @@ -35,9 +32,9 @@ the package incorrectly assumes it is going to be located at <screen><userinput>touch /usr/bin/passwd</userinput></screen> -<para>The current shadow suite has a problem in the newgrp command which causes -it to fail. The following patch (also appearing in Shadow's CVS code) fixes -this problem.</para> +<para>The current Shadow suite has a problem that causes in the +<userinput>newgrp</userinput> command to fail. The following patch (also +appearing in Shadow's CVS code) fixes this problem:</para> <screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&shadow-patch;</userinput></screen> |