<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The developer of libshadow there claims that libshadow.a and libmisc.a > should not be published. AFAICT these libraries are indeed not available > on RedHat. The developer claims that Debian, Suse & Slac also have no libsh= > adow.a > hanging around somewhere. (Near the end of the whole issue.)
Other platforms have libshadow, and require it for accessing /etc/shadow. If gentoo doesn't want people to use libshadow, they shouldn't have installed it. This indicates that they didn't think through the issues involved. Hmm... part way through the bug report log, they "discover" that binaries necessary for local authentication are linked against libraries in /usr, which is often NFS-mounted, and thus may not be available. This issue has been known in Unix for 20 years: it's why there's /bin, and /usr/bin. <sigh> Alan DeKok. - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html
