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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Removing PAM from my system, is it adviseable?
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On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 11:11 AM, James Homuth <james@the-jdh.com> wrote:
> For almost a year now I've had PAM, not by choice really, on my server.
> Mostly because I've been pretty much told if it came with, it's better not
> to remove it. But to be blunt, I'm getting more than a little irritated with
> its attempts to interfere with my attempts to configuring any program with
> an optional PAM plugin. Will my system blow up at me if I remove PAM? And,
> if no, I assume I can just do so by specifying -pam in make.conf, and then
> rebuilding things as necessary?

I haven't tried it, but here is a wiki article about removing PAM:

http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/HOWTO_Remove_PAM

good luck :)
Paul