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 4.43) id 1E95Bo-00057D-5J for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 27 Aug 2005 18:14:00 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7RIBWRB017029; Sat, 27 Aug 2005 18:11:32 GMT Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.de [213.165.64.20]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7RI75pL005006 for ; Sat, 27 Aug 2005 18:07:05 GMT Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 27 Aug 2005 18:08:41 -0000 Received: from c192029.adsl.hansenet.de (EHLO [192.168.2.189]) [213.39.192.29] by mail.gmx.net (mp014) with SMTP; 27 Aug 2005 20:08:41 +0200 X-Authenticated: #25576946 Message-ID: <4310ACAB.2030105@gmx.net> Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2005 20:10:51 +0200 From: Marco Matthies User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050723) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Get rid of PAM? References: <430F26AF.2080204@nethere.com> <20050826173423.GA1096@princeton.edu> <4310A52D.2000000@nethere.com> In-Reply-To: <4310A52D.2000000@nethere.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-Archives-Salt: af09ff3d-bb30-4c55-82fd-9ce8cf863666 X-Archives-Hash: 652aecdbfd310d3982135ff75a6de112 Jerry Turba wrote: > Thanks Willie and Marco for the ideas. I got the HOWTO and will read it > and try it out. I wasn't aware that there was a gentoo wiki. Looks like > lots of info there that I need to read. > Thanks for the help. Hi, just for clarification so there is no confusion, my suggestion to pass init=/bin/bash to the kernel from grub/lilo on boot was only meant as an alternative to using a live-cd in case you brake your system authentication while removing pam. Using init=/bin/bash is probably a very bad way to replace any sort of authentication system, it's just useful as a way of starting up the system without running any sort of init scripts, mounting extra filesystems, loading kernel modules, etc... In case anyone reading this is interested in more info about the normal startup of the system (which is the implicit init=/sbin/init used if you don't supply an init parameter), there's more info here: http://www.tldp.org/LDP/intro-linux/html/sect_04_02.html The rest of the site www.tldp.org (The Linux Documentation Project) has great info on many things in the linux universe as well. Marco -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list