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List:       kde
Subject:    Re: Compiling on FreeBSD
From:       Alex <garbanzo () hooked ! net>
Date:       1998-05-31 6:30:59
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On 18 May 1998, Kevin Street wrote:

> Oh, you're right.  kppp builds ok now - it'd been a while since I
> tried it last.   I have compiled kuser before, but it didn't really
> understand the FreeBSD passwd set up.  As I recall it wanted to change 
> /etc/passwd rather than /etc/master.passwd and didn't rebuild the real 
> db files pwd.db and spwd.db.  For FreeBSD it should also have an entry 
> field for the login class for the user.  I've been meaning to dig in
> and fix it for FreeBSD.  --without-shadow does fix the build though, thanks.  

It's a fairly well written program.  While there are some typos, which
might cause you to chase your semantical tail like a dog, I think it
should be easy enough to extend, although a better hack might be
incorporate vipw and kuser.

- alex

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