On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 12:58 AM, James Homuth <ja...@the-jdh.com> wrote: > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Neil Bothwick [mailto:n...@digimed.co.uk] > Sent: January 22, 2009 7:16 PM > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Removing PAM from my system, is it adviseable? > > On Thu, 22 Jan 2009 12:11:12 -0500, James Homuth wrote: > >> 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? > > That's pretty much what I did. Nothing's blown up... yet. > > I heard there were some programs that won't be emerged or won't work > properly if PAM is removed. An example given in the posted wiki article is > Open Office. Is that still accurate?
OOo has worked perfectly on all of my 2007 and 2008 PAM-less builds. I've always started with a stage3, added -pam to USE, adjusted cflags and such to my liking, and then followed with a full emerge -e system. I added it back on one system more recently because of something or other I was screwing with... x11-misc/slim I think it was. Looking at a quick "eix openoffice" ... it does have a pam use flag to get past any troubles. -- Poison [BLX] Joshua M. Murphy
