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- From: richb@jti.com (Richard Braun)
- Subject: Re: Compiling 'shadow'
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- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 19:10:24 GMT
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- I wrote:
- >Binary mods to /bin/login make me a little queasy! And I'll bet I'm
- >not alone.
-
- Over the weekend I looked at this more closely. The problem is that
- ulimit() is obsolete with Gnu lib 4.2, and the Linux release of shadow
- doesn't reflect that.
-
- In config.h, change:
-
- #define HAVE_ULIMIT
- #undef HAVE_RLIMIT
- to
- #undef HAVE_ULIMIT
- #define HAVE_RLIMIT
-
- I'll cc this posting to Ed Carp, who is listed as maintainer of the
- Linux release.
-
- -rich
- P.S. Why isn't this version of login used as the standard Linux version?
- I don't see any disadvantage to using it, only benefits.
-