From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LQeZH-0002rR-Qr for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 24 Jan 2009 09:12:44 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6097DE036E; Sat, 24 Jan 2009 09:12:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16F8EE036E for ; Sat, 24 Jan 2009 09:12:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from krikkit (krikkit.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 5F2B8280F53 for ; Sat, 24 Jan 2009 09:12:40 +0000 (GMT) Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 09:12:37 +0000 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Removing PAM from my system, is it adviseable? Message-ID: <20090124091237.20c3a462@krikkit> In-Reply-To: <073c01c97d1f$98a973b0$6400a8c0@quan> References: <062401c97cb4$6dc7add0$6400a8c0@quan> <20090123001616.1ca548b3@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> <073c01c97d1f$98a973b0$6400a8c0@quan> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.0cvs39 (GTK+ 2.14.7; i686-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Sig_/xn=vgakd64b5qIVS5aLnyVr"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Archives-Salt: 461361fc-ead2-4aaf-9419-e854e4ab6d5f X-Archives-Hash: 13fc8365dc0dc8062e44281175871ac3 --Sig_/xn=vgakd64b5qIVS5aLnyVr Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 --=20 Neil Bothwick Top Oxymorons Number 5: Twelve-ounce pound cake --Sig_/xn=vgakd64b5qIVS5aLnyVr Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkl624UACgkQum4al0N1GQPj3gCgz1I+9bmObsYSHBxZdPcjHCL5 e2YAoMcRvQ+266anVSW27ehm8E7HB8tC =hW5g -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/xn=vgakd64b5qIVS5aLnyVr--