Hello, Ivan !
On Thu, 20 Aug 1998, Linux Lists wrote:
>I'm trying to compile/install PPP 2.3.3 in a SuSE 5.2 (kernel 2.0.33)
>system and I'm facing a bitter problem. As you probably know, SuSE comes
>with Shadow Passwords pre-installed (by default). Well, that's ok, but ...
>
>When I try to compile PPP with the command:
>
> make HAS_SHADOW=1
>
>, it complains about the non-existence of the file shadow/pwauth.h. Ok,
>then I downloaded this file from the 'Net and PPP modules compiled fine.
>But ...
>
>When the process reaches the linkage phase, it says that the libshadow
>library does not contain a definition for the 'isexpired' function.
>
>Well, since I couldn't find a libshadow on the 'Net that solved my problem
>(I've tried several sources from the 'Net), I have the following
>questions:
>
>- Where can I get a libshadow that would solve my problem ??
>- In case the problem is not the libshadow, then what is it ??
>- Where can I get the 'libshadowdev' package (the package name probably is
> not this one, but what I'm looking for is a package that includes the
> header files used to compile applications that support Shadow password
> functions ... this package would probably include, for instance, the
> file shadow/pwauth.h) ??
You need shadow kit. I don't know, what is the most fresh version, I used
shadow-971215.tar.gz. There was some problems to compile library as
shared library, but some extra typing does the trick :)
This you can take from :
ftp://unicorn.math.spbu.ru/pub/unix/security/shadow-971215.tar.gz
Bye.
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