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- From: pmacdona@sanjuan (Peter MacDonald)
- Subject: Re: Compiling 'shadow'
- Message-ID: <1993Jan5.021422.9201@sol.UVic.CA>
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- Organization: University of Victoria, Victoria B.C. CANADA
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- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 93 02:14:22 GMT
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- In article <C0CFxD.1xH@jti.com> richb@jti.com (Richard Braun) writes:
- >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ulimit() is obsolete with Gnu lib 4.2, and the Linux release of shadow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.
-
- You should probably not use the shadow passwd posted. I have added it
- to SLS, but not until I fixed a few major bugs, plus added a major missing
- piece: an interface to intercept getpw* and getgr* calls from suid
- clients, and fill in the passwd field. After the upload of the next
- SLS, I will upload the new source. But I have already sent the
- changes to the original author.
-
- Peter
- pmacdona@sanjuan.uvic.ca
-
-