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.

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