How do I configure VShell® to run on SuSe Linux 9.x?

There are several steps to configuring VShell to run on SuSe including modifying /etc/pam.d/vshelld and updating symbolic links. This process is as follows.

1. Download the VShell rpm for RedHat Linux 8.
2. Install VShell using the rpm -i command as shown below:
   

   rpm -i vshell-2.3.0-142.rh8.i386.rpm

3. Due to different modules being implemented on RedHat and SuSe versions of Linux, once VShell is installed, you will need to modify the /etc/pam.d/vshelld file as follows:
1. Back up the current version of /etc/pam.d/vshelld using this command:
   

   cp /etc/pam.d/vshelld /etc/pam.d/vshelld.old

2. Next, using vi, Emacs, or the editor of your choice, modify /etc/pam.d/vshelld to read as follows:
   

   #%PAM-1.0
   auth required pam_unix2.so set_secrpc
   auth required pam_nologin.so
   auth required pam_env.so
   account required pam_unix2.so
   account required pam_nologin.so
   password required pam_pwcheck.so
   password required pam_unix2.so use_first_pass use_authok
   session required pam_unix2.so none
   session required pam_limits.so
   session optional pam_resmgr.so fake_ttyname

4. Since the RedHat and SuSe Linux directory structures are different, some symbolic links defined during installation are not valid under SuSe. Upon installation, the links point to ../init.d/vshelld and need to be changed to point to /etc/init.d/vshelld. These links will need to be removed, and have the proper links created.
1. Using the unlink command, remove the following links:
   

   unlink /etc/rc.d/rc0.d/K01vshelld
   unlink /etc/rc.d/rc1.d/K01vshelld
   unlink /etc/rc.d/rc2.d/S99vshelld
   unlink /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/S99vshelld
   unlink /etc/rc.d/rc4.d/S99vshelld
   unlink /etc/rc.d/rc5.d/S99vshelld
   unlink /etc/rc.d/rc6.d/K01vshelld

2. Create the correct symbolic links using the ln -s command as follows:
   

   ln -s /etc/init.d/vshelld /etc/rc.d/rc0.d/K01vshelld
   ln -s /etc/init.d/vshelld /etc/rc.d/rc1.d/K01vshelld
   ln -s /etc/init.d/vshelld /etc/rc.d/rc2.d/S99vshelld
   ln -s /etc/init.d/vshelld /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/S99vshelld
   ln -s /etc/init.d/vshelld /etc/rc.d/rc4.d/S99vshelld
   ln -s /etc/init.d/vshelld /etc/rc.d/rc5.d/S99vshelld
   ln -s /etc/init.d/vshelld /etc/rc.d/rc6.d/K01vshelld

You should now be able to configure and run VShell.

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