lfs-book/chapter06/shadowpwd-exp.xml

<sect2>
<title>Command explanations</title>

<para>
<userinput>cp limits login.access and others:</userinput> These files
were not installed during the installation of the package so we copy
them manually as those files are used to configure authentication
details on the system.
</para>

<para>
<userinput>sed "s|/var/spool/mail|/var/mail|" login.defs.linux &gt;
/etc/login.defs</userinput>: /var/spool/mail is the old location of the
user mailboxes. The location that is used nowadays is /var/mail.
</para>

</sect2>