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@@ -15,5 +15,10 @@ details on the system.</para>
/etc/login.defs</userinput>: /var/spool/mail is the old location of the
user mailboxes. The location that is used nowadays is /var/mail.</para>
+<para><userinput>ln -sf vipw vigr</userinput> and
+<userinput>ln -sf vipw.8 vigr.8</userinput>: According to the manpage of
+vipw, vigr should be a symlink to it. Because the shadow installation
+procedure doesn't create these symlinks, we create them manually.</para>
+
</sect2>