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- I have uploaded a new version of Linux-specific patches for shadow-3.3.1
- into the Incoming directory of sunsite.unc.edu.
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- File name: shadow-3.3.1-2.dif
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- I have put together patches from the following people:
- - Riku Meskanen, <mesrik@tukki.jyu.fi>
- - Mohan Kokal, <magnus@cegt201.bradley.edu>
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- Partial list of the enhancements and bug fixes:
- - add new variable LOGIN_STRING to /etc/login.defs which
- allows administrator control "Password :" string.
- - removed the problem when login trashing TERM= variable on
- normal login even when -p is *not* defined.
- - The shadow library is also installed.
- - The "lastlog" file now also updates the hostname of the last login.
- - "su" makes better syslog-messages.
- - "lastlog" now works.
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- To install this package do a "make". If everything compiles, do a
- "make install" as root. Do not forget to update your "/etc/login.defs"!
- Otherwise, your "login" won't work!!!
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- More detailed: You have to fetch the original source code of the
- shadow 3.3.1 package. (It is on sunsite, "shadow-3.3.1.tar.gz")
- Unpack that source package with "tar xzf shadow-3.3.1.tar.gz" and go into
- the source directory ("cd shadow-3.3.1"). Then you have to apply the Linux
- patches with "patch -s -p0 < shadow-3.3.1-2.dif". Then "make; make install".
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- Please send me any further bug fixes for the next release.
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-
- Florian La Roche, flla@stud.uni-sb.de
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- P.S.: I do *not* know, when the next official release of the shadow-system
- will be...
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