Re: Compiling w/shadow support

["Mark A. Bialik" <mbialik@infinityhealthcare.com>]

>There should be very few packages you need to do this for.  Is this
>plain Debian 1.3.1?

Well, it was. Since I went to libc6, it's now 2.0 or something :)

>> ld: cannot open -lshadow: No such file or directory
>
>Try leaving it out, or using -lcrypt.  The latter is for libc6, IIRC.

But how do these packages know to use /etc/shadow instad of /etc/passwd then?

Thanks,
Mark
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