2 <title>Installation of Shadow Password Suite</title>
4 <para>Before you install this package, you may want to have a look at the
5 <ulink url="http://hints.linuxfromscratch.org/hints/shadowpasswd_plus.txt">http://hints.linuxfromscratch.org/hints/shadowpasswd_plus.txt</ulink>
6 lfs hint. It discusses how you can make your system more secure regarding
7 passwords and how to get the most out of this Shadow package.</para>
9 <para>Install the Shadow Password Suite by running the
10 following commands:</para>
12 <para><screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-shared &&
14 make install &&
16 cp limits login.access /etc &&
17 sed 's%/var/spool/mail%/var/mail%' login.defs.linux > /etc/login.defs &&
18 cd /usr/sbin &&
19 ln -sf vipw vigr &&
20 rm /bin/vipw &&
21 mv /bin/sg /usr/bin &&
23 mv libmisc.*a libshadow.*a /usr/lib &&
24 cd /usr/lib &&
25 ln -s ../../lib/libshadow.so</userinput></screen></para>