[Samba] smbpasswd + ldap questions

[Jason Joines]

On Monday 22 July 2002 03:14, IOhannes zmoelnig wrote:
> Jason Joines wrote:
> >      This is exactly what I need to do as well.  I downloaded the
> > stuff from http://www.rit.bme.hu/~balsa/pam_ldap_ntlm/ but thought
> > it was the entire pam_ldap instead of a patch.  A patch is much
> > better as I would like to apply it to my SuSE 8.0 pam_ldap-137
> > source rpm, then build an rpm from that.
> >      How can I apply the patch?
>
> hi, i do not know exactly on SuSe, but it is something like:
> get the source-distribution of the SuSe-package (on debian, this is
> as easy as "apt-get source libpam-ldap") i have no idea on how to do
> this on SuSe.
> once you have the source-package, you should have everything you need
> to build your rpm, including build-scripts,...
> so, go to your fresh installed sources
> make something similar to
> "patch -p1 < patchfile.diff"
> if necessary, read "man patch", have a look at your patchfile.diff
> (or whatever the patchfile is called) and retry ;-)
> build the package, as would the maintainers (again no idea: on debian
> it would be "./debian/rules binary", on SuSe it could be anything
> from "make rpm" to whatever)
>
> if all fails, i could send you my .deb package, sou you could convert
> it to rpm (with "alien")
>
> mfg.ca.sdr
> IOhannes
>
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Jason Joines
> > Open Source = Open Minds
> > =====================


Please do send me your .deb package.  I'll give Alien a try.

Thanks,

Jason
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