On Wed, 11 Feb 1998, Mark A. Bialik wrote: > > >There should be very few packages you need to do this for. Is this > >plain Debian 1.3.1? > > Well, it was. Since I went to libc6, it's now 2.0 or something :) > > >> ld: cannot open -lshadow: No such file or directory > > > >Try leaving it out, or using -lcrypt. The latter is for libc6, IIRC. > > But how do these packages know to use /etc/shadow instad of /etc/passwd then?
The routines in -lshadow are included in libc6 by default, there isn't any need for a seperate shadow library. -- Scott K. Ellis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.gate.net/~storm/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .