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 1EdqeK-0005b4-Vr for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 20 Nov 2005 14:58:37 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jAKEvZgG010345; Sun, 20 Nov 2005 14:57:35 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 jAKEpFwS023587 for ; Sun, 20 Nov 2005 14:51:16 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 52A69274006 for ; Sun, 20 Nov 2005 15:51:18 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <43808D73.7040403@mid.email-server.info> Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2005 15:51:31 +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] regarding PAM [WAS: root password gremlin] References: <20051117203328.73680.qmail@web25601.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> <437EC8BB.2040507@mid.email-server.info> <437F4072.70604@buanzo.com.ar> <200511192320.24536.abhay.ilugd@gmail.com> <437FC7ED.9060504@buanzo.com.ar> <43805ED5.5020502@mid.email-server.info> <438061FE.4040004@buanzo.com.ar> <438071FE.50009@mid.email-server.info> <4380737B.5070906@buanzo.com.ar> <438076C7.7070103@mid.email-server.info> <43807912.8030209@buanzo.com.ar> <43807C5C.3040204@mid.email-server.info> <43807EF4.9070803@buanzo.com.ar> In-Reply-To: <43807EF4.9070803@buanzo.com.ar> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 4864df7a-3d5e-4d33-b133-766d1116bf02 X-Archives-Hash: d8b7152c47544bb6472b163e2effef5a Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman schrieb: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Alexander Skwar wrote: >> Optional things aren't standard. They are >> optional. PAM is optional. You don't need >> it - at least not for basic setups. > > It is NOW optional. I'm sure this will change, Well, I'm sure it won't. On low end embedded systems, you just don't need it. And when discussing base requirements, it should be made sure that even the low end is still supported. Also on normally sized systems, there just is no requirement for it - as long as the requirements are simple enough (eg. LDAP? Go PAM! Database? Go PAM!). But on consumer systems, and that's what we're talking about!, you won't need PAM. Not now, not in the future. Alexander Skwar -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list