rcs build failure

[Steven Michalske]

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what about this

useradd rcs_build -s /bin/bash blah blah blah &&
su rcs_build -c "PATH=$PATH; ./configure --prefix=/usr && make"  &&
prepare_install &&
make install &&
rmuser rcs_build &&

hardkeash

On Wednesday 12 February 2003 11:12 am, Terry Chan wrote:
> Ben,
>
> Not a lot of RCS users in lunar as all the devs have to use CVS.
>
> The problem you are having is from a fix by our "security" dev.  User
> bin used to have a shell in /etc/passwd, but the security dev claims
> that this is a really bad idea so we changed /etc/passwd to not give
> a shell to bin and that broke the RCS build as you have discovered.
>
> This will have to be resolved before RCS will work again.  We probably
> do not want to add a depends on the module shadow for RCS to work
> correctly.
>
> If it turns out your solutions is the easiest way, then it'll be fixed
> accordingly.  Thanks for the help.
>
> Terry Chan
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 06:44:29PM -0700, Shern, Benjamin J wrote:
> > Not sure if anyone else has run into this or if it's
> > just me, but this is what I had to do to get rcs to build.
> > The problem I ran into seems to be that the user "bin" has no shell.
> > This is the tweaked BUILD that seemed to solve the problems.
> >
> >
> > # Quick note:
> > # RCS doesn't like to be compiled as root, as the make is
> > # doing several of the tests, and these tests need to be executed
> > # as a non-root user :(
> > # that's the reason for the chown & su to user bin!!!!
> >
> > (
> >
> >   bins_shell=`cat /etc/passwd | grep '^bin:' | cut -f7 -d':'`
> >   usermod -s /bin/bash bin
> >   chown   -R  bin:bin  .                    &&
> >   su bin  -pc  "PATH=$PATH; ./configure --prefix=/usr && make"  &&
> >   prepare_install                           &&
> >   make    install
> >   usermod -s "$bins_shell" bin
> >
> > ) > $C_FIFO 2>&11
> >
> >
> > rcs then has depends on module shadow after this fix...
> > regards,
> > Ben
>
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