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authorPierre Labastie <pieere@linuxfromscratch.org>2020-04-19 06:08:50 +0000
committerPierre Labastie <pieere@linuxfromscratch.org>2020-04-19 06:08:50 +0000
commit0827a1ae4120b0fca3958f9f958e306f552b0c90 (patch)
tree5e0b364a504ca2ea8f96d47ae1331e8eb71ccc20 /chapter06
parent3944e7bdda7568f0ac2fb55afc818a815dc0312f (diff)
Fix a wrong hardcoded path in some shadow programs. ticket #4632
git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@11811 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
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-rw-r--r--chapter06/shadow.xml11
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/chapter06/shadow.xml b/chapter06/shadow.xml
index b052ab3ab..7fd621bdb 100644
--- a/chapter06/shadow.xml
+++ b/chapter06/shadow.xml
@@ -83,12 +83,21 @@ find man -name Makefile.in -exec sed -i 's/passwd\.5 / /' {} \;</userinput></s
<para>Prepare Shadow for compilation:</para>
-<screen><userinput remap="configure">./configure --sysconfdir=/etc --with-group-name-max-length=32</userinput></screen>
+<screen><userinput remap="configure">touch /usr/bin/passwd
+./configure --sysconfdir=/etc --with-group-name-max-length=32</userinput></screen>
<variablelist>
<title>The meaning of the configure option:</title>
<varlistentry>
+ <term><command>touch /usr/bin/passwd</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>The file <filename>/usr/bin/passwd</filename> needs
+ to exist because its location is harcoded in some programs, and
+ the default location if it does not exist is not right.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
<term><parameter>--with-group-name-max-length=32</parameter></term>
<listitem>
<para>The maximum user name is 32 characters. Make the maximum