On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 06:11:22PM -0500, Willie Wong wrote > Clarify? I certainly run my box without pam and I can still login. Is > this some new development that I am not aware of?
You need to emerge *EITHER* pam *OR* shadow. You can't emerge both, because they provide the same service. I prefer to run without pam, because "everything you know is wrong" when it comes to config files all over the place. -- Walter Dnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In linux /sbin/init is Job #1 My musings on technology and security at http://tech_sec.blog.ca -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list