Subject: new shadow patches
From: [email-masked] (Florian La Roche)
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 1994 16:37:50 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce

I have uploaded a new version of Linux-specific patches for shadow-3.3.1
into the Incoming directory of sunsite.unc.edu.
(They probably will be moved to system/Admin...)

File name:    shadow-3.3.1-2.dif

I have put together patches from the following people:
-  Riku Meskanen, <[email-masked]>
-  Mohan Kokal, <[email-masked]>

Partial list of the enhancements and bug fixes:
- add new variable LOGIN_STRING to /etc/login.defs which
  allows administrator control "Password :" string.
- removed the problem when login trashing TERM= variable on
  normal login even when -p is *not* defined.
- The shadow library is also installed.
- The "lastlog" file now also updates the hostname of the last login.
- "su" makes better syslog-messages.
- "lastlog" now works.

To install this package do a "make". If everything compiles, do a
"make install" as root. Do not forget to update your "/etc/login.defs"!
Otherwise, your "login" won't work!!!

More detailed: You have to fetch the original source code of the
shadow 3.3.1 package. (It is on sunsite, "shadow-3.3.1.tar.gz")
Unpack that source package with "tar xzf shadow-3.3.1.tar.gz" and go into
the source directory ("cd shadow-3.3.1"). Then you have to apply the Linux
patches with "patch -s -p0 < shadow-3.3.1-2.dif". Then "make; make install".

Please send me any further bug fixes for the next release.

Florian  La Roche,	[email-masked]

P.S.: I do *not* know, when the next official release of the shadow-system
      will be...
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