Linux Debian support - Problem installing shadow on Slackware

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Problem installing shadow on Slackware - needed for missing PAM support

Madhusudan Singh

2005-07-26, 5:48 pm

Henryk Liniowski wrote:

> Hi!
> I wrote a little howto about installing PAM under Slackware.
> Hope you find it useful:
>
> http://linio.boo.pl/eng/slackpam.html
>
> Linio

Hi

Thanks for the HOWTO. I have been looking for something like this for a
while now.

However, may I ask why are you using considerably older versions of
util-linux ?

When I tried to install util-linux (after removing the installed version of
util-linux), install failed with :

install -d -m 755 /usr/bin /usr/share/man/man1 /usr/share/misc/getopt
Bad switch -d

man install shows that -d is a valid option. What do you think I should do ?
Really, using PAM with Slackware is turning out to be a headache. Should I
migrate this machine to Debian ?