On 21 Jun 2005, you wrote in blfs.dev: > Hello there > > I just installed shadow 4.0.9. It works well, but it gives a lot of > configuration errors, because now some keys are disabled when shadow is > compiled with pam support, and the login.defs isn't created > automatically yet. That means that for the book, the sed command has to > be extended quite a lot. I hope blfs is updated to shadow 4.0.9 very > soon because it's a PITA to comment it all out manually... > More information on the issue: > http://lists.pld.org.pl/mailman/pipermail/shadow/2005-April/000096.html > > Cheers > Simon >
That particular issue was with shadow-4.0.8 and was a direct result of coding error - there is a big comment in the definitions for login.defs that entries must be in alphabetical order, and the developers ignored it during some 4.0.8 changes related to PAM. 4.0.9 fixes the problem (by changing the search algo to be sequential, instead of binary) - so you should *not* see these errors in shadow 4.0.9 (I certainly no longer see them here). - -- Steve Crosby -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
