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| -rw-r--r-- | chapter01/changelog.xml | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | chapter06/shadowpwd-inst.xml | 10 |
2 files changed, 16 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/chapter01/changelog.xml b/chapter01/changelog.xml index e970c16ce..186d313ec 100644 --- a/chapter01/changelog.xml +++ b/chapter01/changelog.xml @@ -74,11 +74,15 @@ </itemizedlist> </para></listitem> -<listitem><para>May 12th, 2003 [winkie]: Chapter 06 - Installing Procps: +<listitem><para>May 13th, 2003 [winkie]: Chapter 06 - Installing Shadow: +touch the /usr/bin/passwd file before installation. Not doing so results in +Shadow thinking passwd will be in /bin/passwd.</para></listitem> + +<listitem><para>May 13th, 2003 [winkie]: Chapter 06 - Installing Procps: Remove the /lib/libproc.so symlink. No package outside of Procps itself uses this library, and none should.</para></listitem> -<listitem><para>May 12th, 2003 [winkie]: Chapter 06 - Installing Net-tools: +<listitem><para>May 13th, 2003 [winkie]: Chapter 06 - Installing Net-tools: Run "make config" before doing make. Fixes bugs #462 and #497.</para></listitem> diff --git a/chapter06/shadowpwd-inst.xml b/chapter06/shadowpwd-inst.xml index 435ff8ddb..ba30a1a46 100644 --- a/chapter06/shadowpwd-inst.xml +++ b/chapter06/shadowpwd-inst.xml @@ -21,6 +21,16 @@ following commands:</para> <para><screen><userinput>touch /var/run/utmp /var/log/{btmp,lastlog,wtmp} && 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 \ |