Re: Installing Shadow Passwords (Ow!)

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From: alex
Date: Thu, 06 Jul 1995 00:00

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Jason Chuen (jxc@ausom.oz.au) wrote:
: I'm taking the plunge and installing Shadow 3.3.1 on my Linux 1.1.59
: machine. It compiled and installed OK after I copied in shadow.h and
: lastlog.h from /usr/include. Asides from there being minimal docs, it all
: went in OK and everything's been hunky-dory.

: I even installed imaplsh without a hitch.

: However, wu.ftpd and poppassd (one of the POP password daemons) have
: refused to compile. I've set the defines for them, and ftpd.o and
: poppassd.o die with the line:

:    % poppassd.o: Undefined symbol _getspnam referenced from text segment
:          and
:    % ftpd.o: Undefined symbol _getspnam referenced from text segment

: What gives? I admit I'm no genius, so can someone give me an idea what
: might be going wrong here? Is it something wrong with my include files?
: The libshadow.a that Shadow installed? Is there a way around this? Is it
: something obvious?

If you were using wu.ftpd-2.4-fix then you need to add -lshadow to makefile.lnx


Best wishes,
Alex

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Subject: Re: Installing Shadow Passwords (Ow!)
Date: 1995/07/06
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