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Re: Compiling w/shadow support



On Wed, 11 Feb 1998, Mark A. Bialik wrote:

> 
> >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?

The routines in -lshadow are included in libc6 by default, there isn't any
need for a seperate shadow library.

-- 
Scott K. Ellis <storm@gate.net>                 http://www.gate.net/~storm/


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