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 1EeKdf-0000Er-Gs for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 21 Nov 2005 22:59:55 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jALMx0so020267; Mon, 21 Nov 2005 22:59:00 GMT Received: from smtp17.wxs.nl (smtp17.wxs.nl [195.121.247.8]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jALMrgdN018606 for ; Mon, 21 Nov 2005 22:53:42 GMT Received: from [10.0.0.150] (ip3e83ab52.speed.planet.nl [62.131.171.82]) by smtp17.wxs.nl (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 Patch 2 (built Jul 14 2004)) with ESMTP id <0IQB00ENSU9I4Z@smtp17.wxs.nl> for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 21 Nov 2005 23:53:42 +0100 (CET) Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 23:53:38 +0100 From: Holly Bostick Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] root password gremlin In-reply-to: <200511220344.40861.abhay.ilugd@gmail.com> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Message-id: <43824FF2.1020706@planet.nl> 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 Content-type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Accept-Language: nl-NL, nl, en User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051029) X-Enigmail-Version: 0.92.0.0 References: <20051117203328.73680.qmail@web25601.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> <4380796C.90409@buanzo.com.ar> <43807E2F.1040802@planet.nl> <200511220344.40861.abhay.ilugd@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: ab22e269-7941-4e32-bf64-03ca9a569fa7 X-Archives-Hash: f57d393365651c6d2c1846db77d1ba07 Abhay Kedia schreef: > On Sunday 20 Nov 2005 7:16 pm, Holly Bostick wrote: > >> equery hasuse pam > > > Wow!!! I performed that thing on my system and the stupid PAM is > everywhere (I am scared as shit after reading this thread). What > would be the easiest way to get rid of PAM from a single user desktop > system working smoothly? Would a -pam in make.conf and emerge -uDN > world suffice? > > Abhay Just because you have a lot of packages installed that have the "pam" USE flag doesn't mean that much-- is the flag actually enabled for those packages? If so, and your system is not having any issues, I wouldn't necessarily become hysterical just yet. But if you really are concerned, and want to remove it, you might consider the following wiki entry, and then think about it before making a decision: http://www.gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Remove_PAM HTH, Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list