shadow - Shadow password suite HOWTO

ChangeLog


Mar 22, 2005	- Removed make, gcc, binutils, fileutils/coreutils links
		- Instead of "cracklib, Linux-PAM" linking to the pam howto,
		  added cracklib link too
Feb 22, 2005	- 4.0.6 -> 4.0.7
Dec 21, 2004	- 4.0.3 -> 4.0.6
		- Added note about versions that come with Slackware
Oct 14, 2003	- Fixed broken link to my shadow-4.0.3-pamfix.patch patch
Sep 18, 2003	- Modernized the howto:
		  Create ~/installed with mode 700
		  Set to re-use existing tarball in ~/installed
		  Fix the world readable/writeable permissions on the
		    extracted tarball (no Joe User needs to be messing with
		    the source for shadow...)
		  Changed the patch download URLs from
		    http://ftp.englanders.cc/... to http://englanders.cc/...
		  Changed the default symlink to pam.d files (at the end) 
		    to symlink to the .noldap files
		  Remove old version shadow tarballs from ~/installed
		  Only d/l and extract the pam.d files if /etc/pam.d exists
		  Only try to symlink the .noldap files if they exist
		  Remove old source directories from /usr/local/src
		  Took all of the patches that Slack 9 uses and combined
		    them into one
		  Added prerequisites
		- Added --disable-nls to configure, removal of .mo files
		  from previously installed (from source) shadow
		- Replaced using cp to install things with install from
		  GNU fileutils
Aug 30, 2002	- Updated pamfiles.tgz with fixed (for non-ldap account)
		  useradd and shadow
Aug 12, 2002	- Updated shadow and useradd symlinks in /etc/pam.d to use
		  the "noldap" version

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