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<sect2 role="installation">
<title>Installation of Shadow</title>
+ <para>First, apply a fix to prevent a segmentation fault when running
+ <command>useradd</command>:</para>
+
+<!-- Hardcoding the patch version because it has been merged upstream and
+ the patch will be unnecessary when the next version is released. -->
+
+<screen><userinput remap="pre">patch -Np1 -i ../shadow-4.10-useradd_segfault-1.patch</userinput></screen>
+
<note>
<para>If you would like to enforce the use of strong passwords, refer to
<ulink url="&blfs-book;postlfs/cracklib.html"/> for installing