Changeset e3f6e6a5 for postlfs/security/shadow.xml

Timestamp:

11/03/2023 12:39:56 AM (6 months ago)

Author:

Bruce Dubbs <bdubbs@…>

Branches:

12.1, ken/TL2024, ken/tuningfonts, lazarus, plabs/newcss, python3.11, rahul/power-profiles-daemon, renodr/vulkan-addition, trunk, xry111/llvm18

Children:

9176d76

Parents:

bac7c05

Message:

Add a warning when updating shadow.
The shadow installation procedure overwrites many files in /etc/pam.d/
which will render system login and su commands (among others) inoperative.

This update adds a warning at the beginning of the build instructions
so it will be hard to miss.

File:

• postlfs/security/shadow.xml (modified) (1 diff)

postlfs/security/shadow.xml

@@ -122 +122 @@
 <screen role="nodump"><userinput>sed -i 's@DICTPATH.*@DICTPATH\t/lib/cracklib/pw_dict@' etc/login.defs</userinput></screen>
     </important>
+
+    <warning>
+      <para>
+        If reinstalling shadow for a version update, be sure to 
+        reaccomplish the Linux-PAM configuration below.  The installation
+        of shadow overwrites many of the files in 
+        <filename class="directory">/etc/pam.d/</filename>.
+      </para>
+    </warning>
 
     <para>