Walter Dnes wrote:
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.
That is outright wrong, pam and shadow are different things. Pam is an
authentication framework, and shadow is an authentication mechanism. Pam
lets you use many ways to authenticate (the default being shadow on a
standard Gentoo system).
Running a system withoug pam is a rather strange thing to do on a modern
Linux system, and I can think of very few reasons to do it.
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