From: Patrick McLean <pmclean@cs.ubishops.ca>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] root password gremlin
Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 00:57:45 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <437EBED9.5060504@cs.ubishops.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051119054556.GD18358@waltdnes.org>
Walter Dnes wrote:
> 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.
>
That is outright wrong, pam and shadow are different things. Pam is an
authentication framework, and shadow is an authentication mechanism. Pam
lets you use many ways to authenticate (the default being shadow on a
standard Gentoo system).
Running a system withoug pam is a rather strange thing to do on a modern
Linux system, and I can think of very few reasons to do it.
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Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-11-17 19:17 [gentoo-user] root password gremlin ÿffffc1lvaro Castro
2005-11-17 19:22 ` Michael Sullivan
2005-11-17 19:37 ` ÿffffc1lvaro Castro
2005-11-17 19:37 ` Michael Kjorling
2005-11-17 19:44 ` Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
2005-11-17 20:33 ` ÿffffc1lvaro Castro
2005-11-17 20:50 ` Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
2005-11-17 21:58 ` ÿffffc1lvaro Castro
2005-11-17 22:04 ` Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
2005-11-17 22:44 ` Neil Bothwick
2005-11-19 5:44 ` Walter Dnes
2005-11-17 23:11 ` Willie Wong
2005-11-19 5:45 ` Walter Dnes
2005-11-19 5:57 ` Patrick McLean [this message]
2005-11-19 6:39 ` Alexander Skwar
2005-11-19 12:07 ` Holly Bostick
2005-11-19 12:51 ` John Jolet
2005-11-20 5:57 ` Walter Dnes
2005-11-20 11:15 ` Alexander Skwar
2005-11-19 15:10 ` Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
2005-11-19 17:50 ` abhay
2005-11-20 0:48 ` Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
2005-11-20 1:43 ` Holly Bostick
2005-11-20 11:38 ` Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
2005-11-20 11:32 ` Alexander Skwar
2005-11-20 11:46 ` Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
2005-11-20 12:54 ` Alexander Skwar
2005-11-20 13:00 ` Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
2005-11-20 13:13 ` Alexander Skwar
2005-11-20 13:26 ` Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
2005-11-20 13:40 ` Alexander Skwar
2005-11-20 13:47 ` Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
2005-11-20 13:46 ` Holly Bostick
2005-11-20 13:53 ` Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
2005-11-20 14:36 ` Holly Bostick
2005-11-20 14:44 ` Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
2005-11-20 18:07 ` kashani
2005-11-21 22:14 ` Abhay Kedia
2005-11-21 22:53 ` Holly Bostick
2005-11-22 12:58 ` Abhay Kedia
2005-11-20 13:00 ` [gentoo-user] regarding PAM [WAS: root password gremlin] Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
2005-11-20 13:14 ` Alexander Skwar
2005-11-20 13:24 ` Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
2005-11-20 13:38 ` Alexander Skwar
2005-11-20 13:49 ` Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
2005-11-20 14:51 ` Alexander Skwar
2005-11-20 14:59 ` Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
2005-11-20 15:24 ` Hemmann, Volker Armin
2005-11-20 17:50 ` Jerry McBride
2005-11-20 5:58 ` [gentoo-user] root password gremlin Walter Dnes
2005-11-20 11:27 ` Alexander Skwar
2005-11-20 12:04 ` [gentoo-user] " Francesco Talamona
2005-11-20 12:57 ` Alexander Skwar
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