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 1EdnRX-0006uo-24 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 20 Nov 2005 11:33:11 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jAKBVh4P003070; Sun, 20 Nov 2005 11:31:43 GMT Received: from hetzner.email-server.info (new.email-server.info [213.133.109.44]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jAKBQvY3006787 for ; Sun, 20 Nov 2005 11:26:57 GMT Received: from [192.168.1.12] (mue-88-130-68-100.dsl.tropolys.de [88.130.68.100]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hetzner.email-server.info (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6AFCA274006 for ; Sun, 20 Nov 2005 12:26:58 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <43805D8F.8070009@mid.email-server.info> Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2005 12:27:11 +0100 From: Alexander Skwar User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050809) X-Accept-Language: de-DE, de, 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] root password gremlin References: <20051117203328.73680.qmail@web25601.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> <437CED2F.7050502@buanzo.com.ar> <20051117231122.GA30003@princeton.edu> <20051119054556.GD18358@waltdnes.org> <437EBED9.5060504@cs.ubishops.ca> <437EC8BB.2040507@mid.email-server.info> <437F4072.70604@buanzo.com.ar> In-Reply-To: <437F4072.70604@buanzo.com.ar> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 973460f1-51c5-4f66-b62e-e559f5b850ba X-Archives-Hash: d0d5030f3036e837709902df6cadfb24 Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman schrieb: > Alexander Skwar wrote: >> What do you need PAM for, when there's basically just one >> (human) user on the system and the system acts as a "consumer" >> (ie. no servers)? Why add the complexity of PAM? Where's >> the gain - in *THAT* scenario? > > Learning. The whole point of using free, open source software. if you do not want to get messy, then > use windows. Anyway, if this user chosed all of his use flags, then he is probably willing to LEARN. What kind of nonsense is that? I suppose, that you'd find it appropriate to use LDAP for a 1 user machine? Sorry, but that's absolute bullshit. Furhter, especially on Windows, there are *WAY* too many things to get messy with. Alexander Skwar -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list