Re: Website and library packages
On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 12:00:45AM -0500, utsl@quic.net wrote:
> Hmm. I was thinking more in terms of a libshadow. I seem to recall that there
> used to be one, back with libc5, and I think that the shadow source package
> still can make one. (If I remember right, it was disabled in the build on
> Debian, because it's in glibc.) If so, you should be able to get passwd and
> everything from Debian working by just adding -lshadow to the Makefiles. In
> fact, I suspect you'd find that configure would pick it up automatically for a
> lot of packages, because Solaris uses libshadow, and configure would know to
> look for it.
I'm not quite sure what you mean here. passwd, adduser, chfn and so on
work in as much as they update /etc/passwd (they all use the libshadow
functions for this even if you don't compile it as a shared library), but
NetBSD getpwnam will only use the db format files. What I think we need is
to modify libshadow to be able to cope with these and make the pw_mkdb
call once they've added information. It looks like there's some sort of
basic infrastructure for doing this, so I don't imagine that it'd be too
difficult.
> That wouldn't be compatible with NetBSD passwd databases, though. But then,
> rewriting update-passwd didn't seem like fun to me. I couldn't even get it to
> compile on FreeBSD.
In a way, it ought to be easier - all the shadow functions can just be
hacked out entirely as long as we teach it to update the correct files.
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Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
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