On Mon, Jan 09, 2012 at 04:28:48PM -0800, Fernando de Oliveira wrote: > > I do care about security, so I should be worried abou that? Anyway, I will > remove PAM (after your and Bruce's comments). > I can't resist misquoting Paul Vixie - if I can persuade you to remove PAM, perhaps you have a problem :) For secure distros, PAM seems to be a common feature. *My* problem with it is that I don't think it will do much for me (one human user on all my systems) and I believe it has the power to seriously hinder me if I don't take the time to learn how to configure it. > … > > > And for --disable-nis : if you don't intend to use nis the > > result > > is positive : you can compile the package with current > > glibc. > > Ok, I do not intend to have a nis server. My doubt was if other packages, > like ssh, apache-ant or rsync would need it. Please, notice that I have no > knowledge about the subject, so probably I will not need it. >
NIS is (perhaps) about 'single sign-on' : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Information_Service And, if you *do* want that with current glibc, I can't help. ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
