rcs build failure

[Shern, Benjamin J]

Please use "-pc" option to su as it preserves environment.
Thanks,
Ben


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steven Michalske [mailto:michalsc at email.uc.edu] 
> Sent: February 12, 2003 9:26 AM
> To: This is the primary mailing list for Lunar Linux!
> Subject: Re: rcs build failure
> 
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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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