Gavin Clark wrote:
>
> on 6/11/00 11:30 AM, Joel VanderWerf wrote:
>
> >
> > Hi, does anybody know how to disable shadow passwords?
> >
> > I've tried pwunconv and grpunconv. But then when you change your passwd
> > you still get an 'x' in /etc/passwd and you can't log in.
> >
> > Why am I doing this? Well, when I installed Mandrake 6.1 last summer,
> > shadowing seemed like a reasonable thing to do, even though my machine
> > is a dial-up client. However, I just installed netatalk and wasn't been
> > able to get it working with shadow passwords (problems compiling DES
> > module). So I rebuilt it without SHADOWPW defined.
> >
> > Now some passwords do work and some don't work. And after you run passwd
> > on an account, the password will definitely not work. (The effect of
> > passwd, which I checked using
> > find / -mount -mmin -2
> > was just to put an 'x' in passwd. So apparently it thinks shadow is in
> > effect but can't find the shadow file and doesn't complain.)
> >
> > At this poing I'm wondering if a full upgrade to 7.1 would be the
> > easiest thing....
> >
> > TIA!
>
> I have netatalk working fine with shadow passwords. Try installing from an
> RPM instaed of rolling your own.
>
> gavin
Well, that was my first choice, but somehow I can't seem to find an
appropriate RPM.
So I decided to RTFM, where M='Makefile'. In sys/linux/Makefile there's
a comment:
# if you aren't using pam and are using glibc, you'll need to add
-lcrypt
# if you're using libc5, you'll need to take out the -lrpcsvc
AFPLIBS=-lrpcsvc
This wasn't documented in the README or README.LINUX, but that's life.
Adding -lcrypt to the line fixed the linking problems I had with the
SHADOWPW define. Now netatalk's running! It's SWEET!
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Joel VanderWerf
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