Re: [lfs-support] source for shadow

2013-12-20 Thread Barry Say
I have received an alternative source for the file from a listmember - thanks. This list feels effective. Barry On 20/12/13 20:39, Barry Say wrote: > I am on my second cycle of LFS. > > I cannot obtain the source for shadow: > http://pkg-shadow.alioth.debian.org/releases/shadow-4.1

[lfs-support] source for shadow

2013-12-20 Thread Barry Say
I am on my second cycle of LFS. I cannot obtain the source for shadow: http://pkg-shadow.alioth.debian.org/releases/shadow-4.1.5.1.tar.bz2 I can get to alioth.debian but can get no access to to shadow I have tried to register twice and failed both times. Is there a problem? Barry -- http

Re: [lfs-support] Shadow tar file

2013-12-04 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Frans de Boer wrote: > I noticed that the debian site can't be reached anymore and therefore > the newest shadow tar can't be reached - if any. > > Does anybody knows where the latest shadow tar's can be found - beside > the LFS site. http://ftp.de.debian

[lfs-support] Shadow tar file

2013-12-04 Thread Frans de Boer
I noticed that the debian site can't be reached anymore and therefore the newest shadow tar can't be reached - if any. Does anybody knows where the latest shadow tar's can be found - beside the LFS site. Regards, Frans. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-su

Re: [lfs-support] Shadow

2013-11-16 Thread Nathanial Jones
Thanks -Original Message- From: lfs-support-boun...@linuxfromscratch.org [mailto:lfs-support-boun...@linuxfromscratch.org] On Behalf Of Alan Feuerbacher Sent: Saturday, November 16, 2013 7:58 PM To: LFS Support List Subject: Re: [lfs-support] Shadow On 11/16/2013 7:43 PM, Nathanial Jones

Re: [lfs-support] Shadow

2013-11-16 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 07:57:36PM -0500, Alan Feuerbacher wrote: > On 11/16/2013 7:43 PM, Nathanial Jones wrote: > > > I would love it if someone could post a link to a mirror or send me the > > package directly. > > Check your mail. > > Alan > More generally, http://anduin.linuxfromscratch.o

Re: [lfs-support] Shadow

2013-11-16 Thread Alan Feuerbacher
On 11/16/2013 7:43 PM, Nathanial Jones wrote: > I would love it if someone could post a link to a mirror or send me the > package directly. Check your mail. Alan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the a

[lfs-support] Shadow

2013-11-16 Thread Nathanial Jones
This is the first time I've attempted to do an LFS in several years, and of course I can't get ONE package. Apparently Alioth had a catastrophic drive failure about a week ago, thus making Shadow unavailable. I would love it if someone could post a link to a mirror or send me t

Re: shadow-4.1.4.3, process limits and fork bombs

2011-10-10 Thread Andrew Benton
Sorry for the noise. My fault. Shadow-4.1.4.3 is working normally. I've been using slim http://slim.berlios.de/ as a login manager run from a bootscript run by init and it seems that it is not setting the limits. If I login at the command prompt shadow sets the limits. The reason I thought s

Re: shadow-4.1.4.3, process limits and fork bombs

2011-10-10 Thread Andrew Benton
Hello, The good news is that current svn pkg-shadow works, it successfully limits the number of processes (with PAM at least, I've not tried it without PAM). The bad news is it has other problems, passwd works but pwconv, grpconv and chpasswd all fail with errors like this: chpasswd: nscd e

Re: shadow-4.1.4.3, process limits and fork bombs

2011-10-09 Thread Andrew Benton
On Sun, 09 Oct 2011 13:48:38 -0500 Bruce Dubbs wrote: > I see you tried the shadow mailing list. I hope you get an answer, but > the list seems to have a lot of spam, so I'm not sure how much it is > actually read. That was my impression too, which is why I didn't subsc

Re: shadow-4.1.4.3, process limits and fork bombs

2011-10-09 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Andrew Benton wrote: > On Sun, 09 Oct 2011 09:59:25 -0500 > Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> shadow-4.0.18.1 is pretty old. I figured you did a complete upgrade, >> including the kernel. > > No, I was using the same kernel, current linus git > >> If you do `ulimit -

Re: shadow-4.1.4.3, process limits and fork bombs

2011-10-09 Thread Andrew Benton
On Sun, 09 Oct 2011 09:59:25 -0500 Bruce Dubbs wrote: > > shadow-4.0.18.1 is pretty old. I figured you did a complete upgrade, > including the kernel. No, I was using the same kernel, current linus git > If you do `ulimit -u 128` from the bash prompt, does that limit your >

Re: shadow-4.1.4.3, process limits and fork bombs

2011-10-09 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Andrew Benton wrote: > On Sat, 08 Oct 2011 21:17:45 -0500 > Bruce Dubbs wrote: > >> bash has a built in ulimit command, PAM has a pam_limits module, and >> shadow uses /etc/limits. I don't think any of these actually control >> the limits, but sets a value for

Re: shadow-4.1.4.3, process limits and fork bombs

2011-10-09 Thread Andrew Benton
On Sat, 08 Oct 2011 21:17:45 -0500 Bruce Dubbs wrote: > bash has a built in ulimit command, PAM has a pam_limits module, and > shadow uses /etc/limits. I don't think any of these actually control > the limits, but sets a value for the kernel to do it. I suspect you > ha

Re: shadow-4.1.4.3, process limits and fork bombs

2011-10-08 Thread Bruce Dubbs
ed it on a system that didn't have PAM (it still > had just shadow) and the result was the same, the fork bomb made the > system unresponsive. I can't remember what version of shadow I was > using last July but I can't make shadow-4.1.4.3 limit the number of > processes a

shadow-4.1.4.3, process limits and fork bombs

2011-10-08 Thread Andrew Benton
ssh to the internet so I'm hardening things up a bit). As part of my testing I tried a fork bomb and was horrified to discover that nothing I did with PAM could prevent the fork bomb from locking up the system. Then I tried it on a system that didn't have PAM (it still had just shadow) and the

Re: shadow-4.1.4.3 not available

2011-06-20 Thread robert
On 06/20/2011 09:14 AM, Eric Plummer wrote: > robert wrote: >> as per instruction at 3.2 All packages ... >> >> wget ftp://pkg-shadow.alioth.debian.org/pub/pkg-shadow/shadow-4.1.4.3.tar.bz2 >> --2011-06-20 08:45:32-- >> ftp://pkg-shadow.alioth.debian.org/pub/

Re: shadow-4.1.4.3 not available

2011-06-20 Thread Eric Plummer
robert wrote: > as per instruction at 3.2 All packages ... > > wget ftp://pkg-shadow.alioth.debian.org/pub/pkg-shadow/shadow-4.1.4.3.tar.bz2 > --2011-06-20 08:45:32-- > ftp://pkg-shadow.alioth.debian.org/pub/pkg-shadow/shadow-4.1.4.3.tar.bz2 > => `shadow-4.1.4.3

shadow-4.1.4.3 not available

2011-06-20 Thread robert
as per instruction at 3.2 All packages ... wget ftp://pkg-shadow.alioth.debian.org/pub/pkg-shadow/shadow-4.1.4.3.tar.bz2 --2011-06-20 08:45:32-- ftp://pkg-shadow.alioth.debian.org/pub/pkg-shadow/shadow-4.1.4.3.tar.bz2 => `shadow-4.1.4.3.tar.bz2' Resolving pkg-shadow.alioth.de

Re: Shadow

2011-06-11 Thread Ryan Chen
It's great help. Thanks! 2011/6/11 Bruce Dubbs > Nick Amor wrote: > > Hi, I'm working on LFS 6.8 and I cannot download the Shadow package. > When I try to use wget it returns the message "failed: connection refused". > I tried going to website to download

Re: Shadow

2011-06-10 Thread Andrew Elian
Hello, On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 12:08:14AM +, Nick Amor wrote: > Hi, I'm working on LFS 6.8 and I cannot download the Shadow package. > When I try to use wget it returns the message "failed: connection refused". > I tried going to website to download directly a

Re: Shadow

2011-06-10 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Nick Amor wrote: > Hi, I'm working on LFS 6.8 and I cannot download the Shadow package. When I > try to use wget it returns the message "failed: connection refused". I tried > going to website to download directly and it said I didn't have access on the >

Shadow

2011-06-10 Thread Nick Amor
Hi, I'm working on LFS 6.8 and I cannot download the Shadow package. When I try to use wget it returns the message "failed: connection refused". I tried going to website to download directly and it said I didn't have access on the download page. I have searched Google an

Re: Question: 6.54 Shadow + "Package Users"

2011-02-21 Thread bsquared
o be group writable -- although > that might help in BLFS when Shadow gets rebuilt after PAM is > installed. Still, I plan on changing the ownship and permissions back > to shadow:shadow before that I get to that point in BLFS. > > Why were you thinking of making them group-writable? &

Re: Question: 6.54 Shadow + "Package Users"

2011-02-19 Thread Drew Ames
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/19/2011 02:11 PM, bsquared wrote: > Drew, > I had another question about the tips you had posted for shadow. I > wonder if you could verify the permissions, it seems to me that they > should be group writable as well. > > -

Re: Question: 6.54 Shadow + "Package Users"

2011-02-19 Thread bsquared
Drew, I had another question about the tips you had posted for shadow. I wonder if you could verify the permissions, it seems to me that they should be group writable as well. -rwsr-xr-x "/bin/su" root:shadow -rwsr-xr-x "/usr/bin/chage" root:shadow -rwsr-xr-x "/u

Re: Question: 6.54 Shadow + "Package Users"

2011-02-07 Thread Drew Ames
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/07/2011 11:14 AM, Brian Winfrey wrote: >> > coreutils: > The section that has the list of files to move caused problems due to > bash's path caching. Either turn it off in pkg users bash profile or > do not move the 'mv' program until the last

Re: Question: 6.54 Shadow + "Package Users"

2011-02-07 Thread Brian Winfrey
On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 6:36 PM, Drew Ames wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 01/23/2011 08:50 PM, Brian Winfrey wrote: >> Sorry, that sounded unappreciative in retrospect, and that is not the >> case.  Thanks for posting you notes. > No problem! I didn't take it as an

Re: Question: 6.54 Shadow + "Package Users"

2011-02-07 Thread Brian Winfrey
On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 8:32 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Brian Winfrey wrote: > >> update: >> util_linux-ng need to change permissions on /usr/lib/pkgconfig/ > > Why?  They look OK to me. > >   -- Bruce > -- > http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support > FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.

Re: Question: 6.54 Shadow + "Package Users"

2011-02-06 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Brian Winfrey wrote: > update: > util_linux-ng need to change permissions on /usr/lib/pkgconfig/ Why? They look OK to me. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Question: 6.54 Shadow + "Package Users"

2011-02-06 Thread Brian Winfrey
On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 6:36 PM, Drew Ames wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 01/23/2011 08:50 PM, Brian Winfrey wrote: >> Sorry, that sounded unappreciative in retrospect, and that is not the >> case.  Thanks for posting you notes. > No problem! I didn't take it as an

Re: Question: 6.54 Shadow w/ Package Users hint

2011-02-06 Thread Brian Winfrey
from time to time, people suggest we don't > actually *need* the autotools - it all depends on what you are going > to do with the new LFS system.  In my case, I've been playing with > newer desktop versions and definitely needed them to overcome > problems.  In a very-lim

Re: Question: 6.54 Shadow w/ Package Users hint

2011-02-06 Thread Ken Moffat
stem. In my case, I've been playing with newer desktop versions and definitely needed them to overcome problems. In a very-limited case you *might* manage to defer installing shadow, but why take the risk ? The more general answer is "FBBG". ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, da

Re: Question: 6.54 Shadow w/ Package Users hint

2011-02-06 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Brian Winfrey wrote: > On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 12:12 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> Brian Winfrey wrote: >>> Is there any problem with deferring installation of shadow until >>> system is ready for deployment? >> No, but why would you want to do that

Re: Question: 6.54 Shadow w/ Package Users hint

2011-02-06 Thread Brian Winfrey
On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 12:12 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Brian Winfrey wrote: >> Is there any problem with deferring installation of shadow until >> system is ready for deployment? > > No, but why would you want to do that? > >   -- Bruce > -- > http://linuxfro

Re: Question: 6.54 Shadow + "Package Users"

2011-02-06 Thread Brian Winfrey
On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 6:36 PM, Drew Ames wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 01/23/2011 08:50 PM, Brian Winfrey wrote: >> Sorry, that sounded unappreciative in retrospect, and that is not the >> case.  Thanks for posting you notes. > No problem! I didn't take it as an

Re: Question: 6.54 Shadow w/ Package Users hint

2011-02-06 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Brian Winfrey wrote: > Is there any problem with deferring installation of shadow until > system is ready for deployment? No, but why would you want to do that? -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsub

Question: 6.54 Shadow w/ Package Users hint

2011-02-06 Thread Brian Winfrey
Is there any problem with deferring installation of shadow until system is ready for deployment? Thanks, Brian -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Question: 6.54 Shadow + "Package Users"

2011-01-23 Thread Drew Ames
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/23/2011 08:50 PM, Brian Winfrey wrote: > Sorry, that sounded unappreciative in retrospect, and that is not the > case. Thanks for posting you notes. No problem! I didn't take it as anything but a simple thank you. For that matter, please let me

Re: Question: 6.54 Shadow + "Package Users"

2011-01-23 Thread Drew Ames
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/23/2011 08:49 PM, Brian Winfrey wrote: >> point of building Shadow yet. But check out my build notes for LFS 6.6 >> here: >> >> http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/blog/lufbery-287892/build-notes-for-lfs-6-6-with-p

Re: Question: 6.54 Shadow + "Package Users"

2011-01-23 Thread Brian Winfrey
Sorry, that sounded unappreciative in retrospect, and that is not the case. Thanks for posting you notes. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Question: 6.54 Shadow + "Package Users"

2011-01-23 Thread Brian Winfrey
> point of building Shadow yet. But check out my build notes for LFS 6.6 > here: > > http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/blog/lufbery-287892/build-notes-for-lfs-6-6-with-package-users-part-3-3258/ > > Please let me know what you think about the build notes and what you &g

Re: Help Needed: 6.54 Shadow + "Package Users"

2011-01-15 Thread Brian Winfrey
log indicates no attempt to > install them.  They were built.  I ran them from the > 'shadow-n.n.n/src' directory.  Now I'm not sure about the state of the > environment.  I realized I had an issue when I attempted the command > to disable mailbox creation. > >

Re: Question: 6.54 Shadow + "Package Users"

2011-01-15 Thread Brian Winfrey
On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 9:43 AM, Brian Winfrey wrote: > > Currently, I have an altogether different problem.  Shadow is not > installing all files, and I may have screwed things up.  Even though > install indicated success and the logs looked good, some files did not > install.

Re: Question: 6.54 Shadow + "Package Users"

2011-01-15 Thread Brian Winfrey
On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 6:37 PM, Drew Ames wrote: > I'm currently building LFS 6.7 with package users, and I'm not at the > point of building Shadow yet. But check out my build notes for LFS 6.6 > here: > > http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/blog/lufbery-287892/bui

Re: Question: 6.54 Shadow + "Package Users"

2011-01-14 Thread Drew Ames
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/14/2011 01:50 PM, Brian Winfrey wrote: > It looks like these "bugs" noted in the Package Users hint for shadow > have been handled in LFS Stable. > > 1) coreutils' groups is installed in /usr/bin and shadow'

Help Needed: 6.54 Shadow + "Package Users"

2011-01-14 Thread Brian Winfrey
The only deviation I have made is in the configure parameters - I added '--disable-nls' per ABOUT-NLS file. It seems as if files are not installing (pwconv, grpconv and /etc/defaults/useradd for example). The log indicates no attempt to install them. They were built. I ran them from t

Re: Question: 6.54 Shadow + "Package Users"

2011-01-14 Thread Brian Winfrey
>  I don't use package-users, so know nothing about the su.1 page, but > why would you expect to NOT install manpages provided by a package ? > The su.1 problem was one of permissions. While LFS did not install su, it did install the man page. It apparently has been fixed in stable. I don't have

Re: Question: 6.54 Shadow + "Package Users"

2011-01-14 Thread Ken Moffat
On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 10:50:53AM -0800, Brian Winfrey wrote: > > However, I was unable to find a references to the foreign language and > su man pages in the make file. > By default shadow wants to install non-English manpages. > you will have to remove the su.1 manp

Question: 6.54 Shadow + "Package Users"

2011-01-14 Thread Brian Winfrey
It looks like these "bugs" noted in the Package Users hint for shadow have been handled in LFS Stable. 1) coreutils' groups is installed in /usr/bin and shadow's groups is installed in /bin, so it's enough to delete shadow's groups after inst

JHALFS didn't install Shadow

2009-05-20 Thread Mike McCarty
y). Well, it did not build or install shadow, so I had no useradd, no ability to log in as root, etc. It took a little bit of reading to figure out what happened, and then I rebooted the "machine" using the LiveCD image, and did the build and install by hand, after which it now boots and run

Where I can Download Shadow 4.1.2.1 or 4.1.2.2

2008-11-26 Thread William Immendorf
Carsten Feuls wrote: >Hello LFS User >I need some help! >Where I can Download Shadow 4.1.2.1 or 4.1.2.2. >I want to Install LFS 6.4 but I can't Download from >ftp://pkg-shadow.alioth.debian.org/pub/pkg-shadow/shadow-4.1.2.1.tar.bz2 >I get a time Out from wget. >Can g

Where I can Download Shadow 4.1.2.1 or 4.1.2.2

2008-11-26 Thread Carsten Feuls
Hello LFS User I need some help! Where I can Download Shadow 4.1.2.1 or 4.1.2.2. I want to Install LFS 6.4 but I can't Download from ftp://pkg-shadow.alioth.debian.org/pub/pkg-shadow/shadow-4.1.2.1.tar.bz2 I get a time Out from wget. Can give me somebody an another link to this shadow ve

Re: shadow-4.1.2.1 man pages

2008-11-03 Thread Ken Moffat
On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 09:01:28PM +0100, Juan A. Moreno wrote: > On Monday 03 November 2008 20:08:12 Randy McMurchy wrote: > > Juan A. Moreno wrote these words on 11/03/08 12:52 CST: > > > What man pages are better? > > > > I would prefer to use the Shadow man

Re: shadow-4.1.2.1 man pages

2008-11-03 Thread Juan A. Moreno
On Monday 03 November 2008 20:08:12 Randy McMurchy wrote: > Juan A. Moreno wrote these words on 11/03/08 12:52 CST: > > What man pages are better? > > I would prefer to use the Shadow man pages. IMO, it's better to use > man pages from the native package rather than the gene

Re: shadow-4.1.2.1 man pages

2008-11-03 Thread Randy McMurchy
Juan A. Moreno wrote these words on 11/03/08 12:52 CST: > What man pages are better? I would prefer to use the Shadow man pages. IMO, it's better to use man pages from the native package rather than the generic ones from the man-pages package. -- Randy rmlscsi: [bogomips 1003.23]

shadow-4.1.2.1 man pages

2008-11-03 Thread Juan A. Moreno
Hi. I am building the current svn version of LFS (20081031). The shadow-4.1.2.1 package wants to install the passwd.5 and getspnam.3 man pages, already installed by the man-pages-3.11 package. What man pages are better? If we prefer the version of the man-pages-3.11 package, we can use commands

Re: Glibc replaces kernel headers [Was Re: LFS-20070209 shadow not playing nice with more_control_pkg_man]

2007-03-02 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 3/2/07, Arden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Feb 14, 2007, at 12:34 PM, Dan Nicholson wrote: > On 2/14/07, Arden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> also glibc-2.5 wants to replace the linux-header file >> /usr/include/scsi/sg.h with it's own. > > Should we be addressing this? I noticed that in Fe

Re: Glibc replaces kernel headers [Was Re: LFS-20070209 shadow not playing nice with more_control_pkg_man]

2007-03-02 Thread Arden
On Feb 14, 2007, at 12:34 PM, Dan Nicholson wrote: > On 2/14/07, Arden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> also glibc-2.5 wants to replace the linux-header file >> /usr/include/scsi/sg.h with it's own. > > Should we be addressing this? I noticed that in Fedora they remove the > scsi directory from t

Glibc replaces kernel headers [Was Re: LFS-20070209 shadow not playing nice with more_control_pkg_man]

2007-02-14 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 2/14/07, Arden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > also glibc-2.5 wants to replace the linux-header file > /usr/include/scsi/sg.h with it's own. Should we be addressing this? I noticed that in Fedora they remove the scsi directory from the generated headers. DIY is doing something similar. http://w

Re: LFS-20070209 shadow not playing nice with more_control_pkg_man

2007-02-14 Thread Arden
Galaxy Travel wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "Arden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "LFS Support List" > Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2007 1:01 PM > Subject: LFS-20070209 shadow not playing nice with more_control_pkg_man > &g

Re: LFS-20070209 shadow not playing nice with more_control_pkg_man

2007-02-14 Thread Galaxy Travel
- Original Message - From: "Arden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "LFS Support List" Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2007 1:01 PM Subject: LFS-20070209 shadow not playing nice with more_control_pkg_man > After installing shadow-4.0.17, with the more_control

LFS-20070209 shadow not playing nice with more_control_pkg_man

2007-02-14 Thread Arden
After installing shadow-4.0.17, with the more_control_and_pkg_man scripts, and creating a pkgusr for the following packages I see this; useradd:unknown GID 1000 mail group doesn't exist creating file 0600 mail --or something very close to that. It creates a mail file in /var/mail/ and lo

Re: su / shadow & /etc/suauth

2007-01-04 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 1/4/07, Julien Lecomte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dan Nicholson wrote: > > > > I've never tried using suauth, but I just looked at the source, and it > > is only enabled if you're using PAM. > > Thanks for pointing this out; I've then tried to

Re: su / shadow & /etc/suauth

2007-01-04 Thread John Harrigan
r problem. > > > > When I 'su', it doesn't seem that '/etc/suauth' is used. For example, my > > /etc/suauth (root:root, 600) only contains > > root:ALL EXCEPT GROUP wheel:DENY > > I've never tried using suauth, but I just looked at the so

Re: su / shadow & /etc/suauth

2007-01-04 Thread Julien Lecomte
en I 'su', it doesn't seem that '/etc/suauth' is used. For example, my >> /etc/suauth (root:root, 600) only contains >> root:ALL EXCEPT GROUP wheel:DENY > > I've never tried using suauth, but I just looked at the source, and it > is only enabled if yo

Re: su / shadow & /etc/suauth

2007-01-03 Thread Bauke Jan Douma
Dan Nicholson wrote on 04-01-07 02:13: > I've never tried using suauth, but I just looked at the source, and it > is only enabled if you're using PAM. BLFS has support for building > shadow against PAM and/or cracklib. Read the warnings, though. You > don't want to get

Re: su / shadow & /etc/suauth

2007-01-03 Thread Dan Nicholson
eem that '/etc/suauth' is used. For example, my > /etc/suauth (root:root, 600) only contains > root:ALL EXCEPT GROUP wheel:DENY I've never tried using suauth, but I just looked at the source, and it is only enabled if you're using PAM. BLFS has support for building shad

su / shadow & /etc/suauth

2007-01-02 Thread Julien Lecomte
fore being returned to the shell prompt, that is, FAIL_DELAY from /etc/login.defs doesn't seem to be used. Otherwise, my /etc/login.access exists as root:root-600, but is all commented out, and relevant parts of /etc/login.defs (also root:root-600) are: SU_NAME su DEFAULT_

Re: Problem with pwconv (shadow package)

2006-03-21 Thread Nikolai
Ken Moffat wrote: On Mon, 20 Mar 2006, Nikolai wrote: I am using the development LFS, and after the installation of the shadow package, when I run pwconv, the program quits with no error message and error status of 1. The lock files stay on the /etc folder, but no shadow file is created

Re: Problem with pwconv (shadow package)

2006-03-20 Thread Ken Moffat
On Mon, 20 Mar 2006, Nikolai wrote: I am using the development LFS, and after the installation of the shadow package, when I run pwconv, the program quits with no error message and error status of 1. The lock files stay on the /etc folder, but no shadow file is created. Even when I fake a

Problem with pwconv (shadow package)

2006-03-20 Thread Nikolai
I am using the development LFS, and after the installation of the shadow package, when I run pwconv, the program quits with no error message and error status of 1. The lock files stay on the /etc folder, but no shadow file is created. Even when I fake a shadow file; I can't use user{ad

Re: Shadow Problem

2006-01-24 Thread David Lyne
su to any user other than root. I installed shadow as a package user and it took me a while to get my head round it! I think that the issue is with the permissions of the programs which get installed (remember that the wrapper scripts which are installed in the package users hint don't

Re: Shadow Problem

2006-01-21 Thread Randy McMurchy
彭畅 wrote these words on 01/21/06 20:52 CST: > As the book recommended, I used the package user manner as the hint > given by Matthias during the whole chroot phase. As has been discussed before, and most agreeing, the verbiage in the LFS book that "recommends" using the package user hint should be

Shadow Problem

2006-01-21 Thread 彭畅
As the book recommended, I used the package user manner as the hint given by Matthias during the whole chroot phase. When I processed to install shadow package, of course, as user named shadow. I did everything exactly as the book says, except for installing CrackLib first and removing just

Re: prob while running grpconv after installing shadow-4.0.9

2006-01-05 Thread Ken Moffat
On Thu, 5 Jan 2006, Hardik Mehta wrote: i tried again and ldd /usr/sbin/grpconv shows all the lib files in /lib that's good. now i have decided not to run grpconv just run pwconv and go ahead.. I dont think this will cause any probs in future. will it ? The only likely problem would be

Re: prob while running grpconv after installing shadow-4.0.9

2006-01-05 Thread Hardik Mehta
--- Ken Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm not familiar with the hint, but the first > question to ask is: do > you really need to run grpconv ? I never use group > passwords, so the > only reason I run grpconv is to test the > instructions in the development > book. > > Normally,

Re: prob while running grpconv after installing shadow-4.0.9

2006-01-05 Thread Hardik Mehta
--- Ken Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Normally, there aren't a lot of groups so this is > definitely not a cpu > intensive operation. Possibly, it has managed to > link against something > from the host system, such as PAM. Check what ldd > say about grpconv. > > You could also t

Re: prob while running grpconv after installing shadow-4.0.9

2006-01-03 Thread Ken Moffat
difference.. now I am in ch-6, installing shadow. I could install it without a problem but when configuring pwconv went well but in grpconv my box stuck- hanged !! this happened many times and the command did not end ... what should i do ? I have a 3.0Gz, 1GB ram pc with 2GB for swap..for info... I am

prob while running grpconv after installing shadow-4.0.9

2006-01-03 Thread Hardik Mehta
Hallo all, some bg information for ur reference: I am trying to make lfs on my existing slackware-10.2, kernel 2.6.14.3 I am following the hint for making lfs on existing partition.. actually upto the point where I m right now this hint makes no difference.. now I am in ch-6, installing shadow

Re[2]: shadow - still problem

2005-10-19 Thread jaca
Hello Matthew, Wednesday, October 19, 2005, 7:47:12 PM, you wrote: MB> jaca wrote: >> Hello Jim, >> >> Wednesday, October 19, 2005, 5:21:01 PM, you wrote: >> >> JG> I just tested the Sparc64 multilib version. No problems here. >> >> JG> Can y

Re: shadow - still problem

2005-10-19 Thread Matthew Burgess
jaca wrote: Hello Jim, Wednesday, October 19, 2005, 5:21:01 PM, you wrote: JG> I just tested the Sparc64 multilib version. No problems here. JG> Can you verify /etc/passwd, /etc/group, /etc/shadow, and /etc/gshadow exist. In addition to Jim's recommendations, also chec

Re: shadow - still problem

2005-10-19 Thread Jim Gifford
run the following utilities pwconv grpconv This should fix your problem -- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] LFS User # 2577 Registered Linux User # 299986 -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See t

Re[2]: shadow - still problem

2005-10-19 Thread jaca
Hello Jim, Wednesday, October 19, 2005, 5:21:01 PM, you wrote: JG> I just tested the Sparc64 multilib version. No problems here. JG> Can you verify /etc/passwd, /etc/group, /etc/shadow, and /etc/gshadow exist. JG> -- JG> -- JG> [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG> [EMAIL PROTECTED] J

Re: shadow - still problem

2005-10-19 Thread Jim Gifford
I just tested the Sparc64 multilib version. No problems here. Can you verify /etc/passwd, /etc/group, /etc/shadow, and /etc/gshadow exist. -- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] LFS User # 2577 Registered Linux User # 299986 -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support

shadow - still problem

2005-10-19 Thread jaca
Hello I still have problem with shadow package. It compiles witout problems. But the programs passwd, login and others douesn't work properly. I can execute them but they exit immediately without waiting for my input. I've checked the instructions in book (Version 7.0-cross-lfs-200510

Re[2]: shadow

2005-10-18 Thread jaca
Hello Luca, Tuesday, October 18, 2005, 6:11:15 PM, you wrote: LD> In section 6.54.2 there are instructions about LD> running the commands: LD> pwconv LD> grpconv LD> Did you already do that? LD> Luca LD> -- LD> http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support LD> FAQ: http://www.linux

Re: shadow

2005-10-18 Thread Luca Dionisi
In section 6.54.2 there are instructions about running the commands: pwconv grpconv Did you already do that? Luca -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

shadow

2005-10-18 Thread jaca
Hi all I have some problems with shadow package. The package compiles without errors but passwd doesn't ask for password. It looks like it does nothing. The same problem is with login. How can i find the solution to correct this problem Regards Jacek H

Re: Setting root password during Shadow setup

2005-09-11 Thread Keith
Keith wrote: Gotten to section 6.54 setting up Shadow-4.0.9. The installation went ok as far as I can tell and I went back and double-checked my commands for configuring it after the make install. I got to the part where it says to set the root password by typing "passwd root". I

Setting root password during Shadow setup

2005-09-11 Thread Keith
Gotten to section 6.54 setting up Shadow-4.0.9. The installation went ok as far as I can tell and I went back and double-checked my commands for configuring it after the make install. I got to the part where it says to set the root password by typing "passwd root". I was under the

Re: Solved Re: shadow/su conflict (initgroups: Operation not permitted)

2005-08-22 Thread Tor Olav Stava
problem myself: the su binary was owned by package user "shadow" and the setuid bit was set. User shadow was not permitted to view the password file. I made root the owner of the su binary, which solved my problem. (I guess i must have accidentally ignored this..). One weird thing

Solved Re: shadow/su conflict (initgroups: Operation not permitted)

2005-08-21 Thread Thomas De Reyck
m. So, to install packages, i frequently have to switch users, by using su. Some time ago, I installed the package "shadow", and from this moment on, my su binary refuses to work with me any longer. I have followed the guidelines in the LFS book and the user-package-system very precise.

shadow/su conflict (initgroups: Operation not permitted)

2005-08-21 Thread Thomas De Reyck
es, i frequently have to switch users, by using su. Some time ago, I installed the package "shadow", and from this moment on, my su binary refuses to work with me any longer. I have followed the guidelines in the LFS book and the user-package-system very precise. Whenever i try to use s

Re: login errors after reinstalling shadow-4.0.10

2005-07-28 Thread randhir phagura
Hi Randy, On 27 Jul 2005 19:39:40 Randy McMurchy wrote: I still think your issue is the new changes in the sed command in the BLFS Shadow instructions. Yeah. I also thought this was not due to HLFS build because earlier also while building BLFS, similar errors had occured but went away

Re: 6.54. Shadow-4.0.7 (Unstable)

2005-03-09 Thread Jeremy Utley
Sergey Ilyevsky wrote: And yet another question ;-) : what happen if I don't move libs to satisfy FHS requirements? Thanks. Depends. If /usr is not a separate partition, then you should be ok no matter how you go about it - things will be available as needed. However, if /usr is on it's own p

Re: 6.54. Shadow-4.0.7 (Unstable)

2005-03-09 Thread Sergey Ilyevsky
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Randy McMurchy wrote: >> Is there any reason to give "--libdir=/lib" and after "make install" >> moving libs to /usr/lib ? >> Why not to give "--libdir=/usr/lib" ? > > The login program is in /bin an

Re: 6.54. Shadow-4.0.7 (Unstable)

2005-03-08 Thread Randy McMurchy
Sergey Ilyevsky wrote these words on 03/08/05 15:59 CST: > Is there any reason to give "--libdir=/lib" and after "make install" > moving libs to /usr/lib ? > Why not to give "--libdir=/usr/lib" ? The login program is in /bin and it is linked to the shado

6.54. Shadow-4.0.7 (Unstable)

2005-03-08 Thread Sergey Ilyevsky
Hi, All. Is there any reason to give "--libdir=/lib" and after "make install" moving libs to /usr/lib ? Why not to give "--libdir=/usr/lib" ? -- With best wishes, Sergey Ilyevsky. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.lin

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