On 02/06/06, Benny Pedersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On two of my servers, a recent update is wanting to emerge sys-apps/shadow
> but it is blocked by sys-apps/pam-login.

emerge -C pam_login
emerge shadow

do not logout before shadow is emerged, since its not posible to login when 
there is no pam_login or shadow

This dangerous eventuality can be avoided entirely by using the method
I posted before.

that have login

i did that and it works on all my servers

> Just wondering if there was some change recently that means switching from
> one to the other?

it most be :-)

The shadow package now provides /bin/login too. The block was put in
place because (a) pam-login is deprecated (b) it doesn't make sense to
have two packages providing overlapping files (indeed, the collision
protection feature would not allow for it under normal circumstances).
The gory details are provided in one of the developer's blogs (also
mentioned in my previous post).

Cheers,

--Kerin Millar
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