Re: [gentoo-user] pam-login blocks shadow?
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> I understand it is not required. However, it always was the default.
> When did it cease being a default USE variable.
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Looking at the shadow Changelog, the ebuilds were updated
on 23 Nov 2004 for shadow-4.0.5-r{2,3}, and shadow-4.0.6,
all based on bug 67815 - Remove PAM requirement in Gentoo.
Bob
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Re: [gentoo-user] pam-login blocks shadow?
Bob Sanders wrote: No. Pam is not required. You may or may not want pam. Some apps may need the pam libs, or think they need it, but strictly speaking, pam is not required. The choice is yours. Bob I understand it is not required. However, it always was the default. When did it cease being a default USE variable. -- Thomas T. Veldhouse Key Fingerprint: 07C7 BF05 4176 F50B A083 4542 0118 1315 761F D300 Spammers please contact me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] pam-login blocks shadow?
> Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: > > >I just build my 2004.3 system from a stage3 install and went to update > >and I am seeing the following: > > > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] veldy # emerge --update --pretend world > > > >These are the packages that I would merge, in order: > > > >Calculating world dependencies ...done! > >[blocks B ] sys-apps/pam-login (from pkg sys-apps/shadow-4.0.5-r2) > > > > > >What does this mean? How do I fix it? > >i emerge -C pam-login > Hmm ... I guess it helps to have PAM in my USE variables. I thought > this was a default and that it wasn't explicitly required? > No. Pam is not required. You may or may not want pam. Some apps may need the pam libs, or think they need it, but strictly speaking, pam is not required. The choice is yours. Bob -- - -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] pam-login blocks shadow?
Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: I just build my 2004.3 system from a stage3 install and went to update and I am seeing the following: [EMAIL PROTECTED] veldy # emerge --update --pretend world These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies ...done! [blocks B ] sys-apps/pam-login (from pkg sys-apps/shadow-4.0.5-r2) What does this mean? How do I fix it? Hmm ... I guess it helps to have PAM in my USE variables. I thought this was a default and that it wasn't explicitly required? USE="x86 3dnow X509 acl acpi acpi4linux activefilter alsa apache2 bash-completion bcmath bzip2 bzlib cap caps cddb cdr clamav cracklib crypt cscope ctype cups curl curlwrappers dba dbm dhcp encode erandom fastcgi flatfile foomaticdb ftp gcj gcl gd gif gmp gmtfull gmthigh gmtsuppl gmttria gsl iconv idea imap imlib inifile innodb java jpeg kerberos lcms libclamav lzw-tiff maildir mcal memlimit mhash mime ming mmx mng mono msession mysql mysqli nptl ntlm objc odbc pam pcntl pcre pdflib pear-db perlsuid php pic pie posix quotas rtc samba sasl session skey slang soap sockets softquota suid szip tiff usb vhosts xml2 xmlrpc xpm xsl xslt yaz" -- Thomas T. Veldhouse Key Fingerprint: 07C7 BF05 4176 F50B A083 4542 0118 1315 761F D300 Spammers please contact me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] pam-login blocks shadow?
I just build my 2004.3 system from a stage3 install and went to update and I am seeing the following: [EMAIL PROTECTED] veldy # emerge --update --pretend world These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies ...done! [blocks B ] sys-apps/pam-login (from pkg sys-apps/shadow-4.0.5-r2) What does this mean? How do I fix it? -- Thomas T. Veldhouse Key Fingerprint: 07C7 BF05 4176 F50B A083 4542 0118 1315 761F D300 Spammers please contact me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
