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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Removing PAM from my system, is it adviseable?
Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 09:12:37 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090124091237.20c3a462@krikkit> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <073c01c97d1f$98a973b0$6400a8c0@quan>

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On Fri, 23 Jan 2009 00:58:20 -0500, James Homuth wrote:

> I heard there were some programs that won't be emerged or won't work
> properly if PAM is removed. An example given in the posted wiki article
> is Open Office. Is that still accurate?

There have been some OOo builds (mainly betas/rcs I think) that failed
configure if PAM was not present. Installing PAM then removing it
afterwards worked, but I don't think this is an issue with the stable
builds, just a bug that got fixed


-- 
Neil Bothwick

Top Oxymorons Number 5: Twelve-ounce pound cake

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-01-24  9:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-22 17:11 [gentoo-user] Removing PAM from my system, is it adviseable? James Homuth
2009-01-22 17:20 ` Paul Hartman
2009-01-23  0:16 ` Neil Bothwick
2009-01-23  5:58   ` James Homuth
2009-01-23  6:23     ` Joshua Murphy
2009-01-24  9:12     ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2009-01-23  0:48 ` Norberto Bensa
2009-01-23  0:55   ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2009-01-23  1:03     ` Norberto Bensa
2009-01-23  3:03       ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2009-01-23  3:34         ` Norberto Bensa
2009-01-23  3:43           ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2009-01-23  4:09             ` Norberto Bensa
2009-01-24  9:09               ` Neil Bothwick
2009-01-23 13:31         ` Mike Kazantsev
2009-01-23 13:49           ` Norberto Bensa
2009-01-23 18:50 ` [gentoo-user] " Christer Ekholm

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