On Sat, 2005-02-19 at 12:45 -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: > does anyone know of a reason why we need sys-libs/db in our system anymore ? > there were historical reasons relating to pam, but since pam has been removed > (but is pulled in when you have USE=pam), i dont think we need db anymore > either ... >
I am pretty sure we used to use pam_userdb instead of pam_unix, but then found a bad exploit in it, and punted it. So from pam side at least it is not a problem, and should not even be installed if user do not have USE=berkdb. -- Martin Schlemmer Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop/System Team Developer Cape Town, South Africa
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