Thanks so much for your response and the patch! Funny thing. I applied the patch and recompiled PAM, then I recompiled shadow, but it still failed unable to find "-lpam". I looked at libpam*.so and they were all symlinks to nonexistant libpam*.so.0, so I remade the symlinks to libpam*.so.0.75 . Then shadow compiled just fine and reported the proper libraries with "ldd /bin/login". However, then login is broken and fails with "login: PAM Failure, aborting: Critical error - immediate abort". Well at least I know its going through PAM now. Passwd and su work just fine. Any further help anyone can give this poor helpless leech is greatly appreciated. My /etc/pam.d/shadow file is the default that comes with shadow: auth sufficient pam_rootok.so account required pam_permit.so password required pam_make.so /var/db The only clue I have is that /var/db doesn't exist. What is it? On Tue, 15 May 2001, Andrew Morgan wrote: > There is a sorry bug in the Linux-PAM configure setup with 0.75, and it > relates to the naming of shared libraries. The fix for it is committed > to the CVS repository, and corresponds to: > > cvs diff -u -r1.13 -r1.14 configure.in > > For information about the CVS repository as a whole, take a look at: > pam.sourceforge.net . > > I'm attaching the patch (be sure to remove the version number change > when applying it). > > Cheers > > Andrew > > Sergey Ostrovsky wrote: > > <--- snip > > > ... I'm sure I am just missing some > > > vital element. > > <--- snip
