John Jolet schrieb: > On Nov 19, 2005, at 12:39 AM, Alexander Skwar wrote: > >> Patrick McLean schrieb: >> >>> 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. >> >> What do you need PAM for, when there's basically just one >> (human) user on the system and the system acts as a "consumer" >> (ie. no servers)? Why add the complexity of PAM? Where's >> the gain - in *THAT* scenario? >> > > I'm not sure about you, but I can think of MANY times over my career > when I set up a box "to do just one thing" or "for just one person" > and down the road all of a sudden, I needed another thing or another > person.
Fine. That's a different scenario. Please stick to the scenario I mentioned. > Retrofitting pam onto a running, configured system is not > something I'd care to attempt. Having pam on from the beginning, if > you don't fiddle with the defaults, poses no extra complexity. And what do you gain by using PAM? Again: Stick to the scenario I mentioned. I think, that it is not an unusual scenario - I tend to think, that it'll fit most home users and also most desktop machines in a *SMALL* office enviroment. Alexander Skwar -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
