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