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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 \ |