[pocket-linux] passwd error

[David Horton]

Dave Henderson wrote:
> Hi all,
>  
>      I am trying to add the passwd feature to my pocket linux, but with 
> no success.  I went to freshmeat.net and did a search for passwd and 
> came up with a package called pwdutils.  I tried to configure the 
> package, but keeps failing with an ldap not found error.  So I tried to 
> just copy over passwd file and all dependencies, but no get an error:
>  
> passwd: pam_start() failed, error 26
>  
> Anyone got a clue?
>  
> Thanks,
> Dave Henderson
> 

Dave,

The only packages I am familiar with that have "passwd" are shadow and 
util-linux.  The util-linux package is okay, but shadow should be more 
secure.

Dave