The following page explains how to build and install the shadow project. Additional information on how to do this in a container environment is provided at the end of the page.
This projects depends on other software packages that need to be installed before building it. We recommend using the dependency installation commands provided by the distributions to install them. Some examples below.
Debian:
apt-get build-dep shadow
Fedora:
dnf builddep shadow-utils
An alternative would be to take a look at the CI workflow file and get the package names from there. This has the advantage that it also includes new dependencies needed for the development version which might have not been present in the last release.
The first step is to configure it. You can use the
autogen.sh script provided by the project. Example:
./autogen.sh --without-selinux --enable-man --with-yescrypt
The next step is to build the project:
make -j4
The last step is to install it. We recommend avoiding this step and using a disposable system like a VM or a container instead.
make install
Alternatively, you can use any of the preconfigured container images builders to build and install shadow.
You can either generate a single image by running the following command from the root folder of the project (i.e. Alpine):
ansible-playbook share/ansible/playbook.yml -i share/ansible/inventory.ini -e 'distribution=alpine'
Note: you'll need to install ansible to run this automation.
Or generate all of the images with the container-build.sh script, as if you
were running some of the CI checks locally:
share/container-build.sh