From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1EdLfu-0007xa-Nc for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 19 Nov 2005 05:54:11 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jAJ5qPVE024830; Sat, 19 Nov 2005 05:52:25 GMT Received: from mailout1.igs.net (mailout1.igs.net [216.58.97.34]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jAJ5jnWE026949 for ; Sat, 19 Nov 2005 05:45:50 GMT Received: from waltdnes.org (i216-58-9-134.cybersurf.com [216.58.9.134]) by mailout1.igs.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 2712058E1 for ; Sat, 19 Nov 2005 00:45:49 -0500 (EST) Received: by waltdnes.org (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Sat, 19 Nov 2005 00:45:56 -0500 From: "Walter Dnes" Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 00:45:56 -0500 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] root password gremlin Message-ID: <20051119054556.GD18358@waltdnes.org> References: <20051117203328.73680.qmail@web25601.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> <437CED2F.7050502@buanzo.com.ar> <20051117231122.GA30003@princeton.edu> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20051117231122.GA30003@princeton.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-Archives-Salt: cba82bf0-2fdf-4481-baa5-bd95976bf78c X-Archives-Hash: d2ccbdddbed172d70ac677c825229b92 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 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