Apologies for wasting peoples' time. I was also inserting a rather large USE variable whilst removing pam. This was a shock for the system and the real reason for system breakage.. Removing pam had nothing to do with it. See http://wikigentoo.ksiezyc.pl/HOWTO_Remove_PAM.htm for pam-removal nstructions. It's somewhat outdated but the basic instructions are OK.
====================================================================== Note: Don't do anything else while removing PAM. Do not log out of existing console sessions First, edit make.conf and add -pam to the USE flags. Then: # emerge -C pam pam-login && emerge -N shadow # emerge -uDN world That's it! Your system is now PAM free. ====================================================================== -- Walter Dnes <[email protected]> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
