Opened 20 years ago
Closed 20 years ago
#820 closed defect (fixed)
Suggestion: move Shadow's passwd into /bin
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| Priority: | lowest | Milestone: | |
| Component: | Book | Version: | CVS |
| Severity: | normal | Keywords: | |
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Description
Reported by DJ Lucas: I'd like to make a suggestion to move passwd into /bin. While this is not required or prohibited by any standard, it can be useful in single user mode when /usr is not availible. Only changes required to the book are that we remove the 'touch /usr/bin/passwd' in shadow install, and add 'mv /usr/bin/passwd /bin' after install. Shadow's shared libs are already installed into /lib.
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Actually, if we do this, I believe to preserve reproducibility, we need to touch /bin/passwd - the original touch was added so the shadow script knew where it was to be located - otherwise the build does not reproduce itself well (or at least that's what I remember from the original PLFS discussions). But, I like this, and it would almost seem to be mandated by FHS - passwd *COULD* be very important in some rescue situations, therefore it should be in /bin