I have uploaded a new version of Linux-specific patches for shadow-3.3.1
into the Incoming directory of sunsite.unc.edu.

File name:    shadow-3.3.1-2.dif

I have put together patches from the following people:
-  Riku Meskanen, <[email protected]>
-  Mohan Kokal, <[email protected]>

Partial list of the enhancements and bug fixes:
- add new variable LOGIN_STRING to /etc/login.defs which
 allows administrator control "Password :" string.
- removed the problem when login trashing TERM= variable on
 normal login even when -p is *not* defined.
- The shadow library is also installed.
- The "lastlog" file now also updates the hostname of the last login.
- "su" makes better syslog-messages.
- "lastlog" now works.

To install this package do a "make". If everything compiles, do a
"make install" as root. Do not forget to update your "/etc/login.defs"!
Otherwise, your "login" won't work!!!

More detailed: You have to fetch the original source code of the
shadow 3.3.1 package. (It is on sunsite, "shadow-3.3.1.tar.gz")
Unpack that source package with "tar xzf shadow-3.3.1.tar.gz" and go into
the source directory ("cd shadow-3.3.1"). Then you have to apply the Linux
patches with "patch -s -p0 < shadow-3.3.1-2.dif". Then "make; make install".

Please send me any further bug fixes for the next release.


Florian  La Roche,      [email protected]

P.S.: I do *not* know, when the next official release of the shadow-system
     will be...

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