[SOLVED] sudo issue after removing pam

Tony0945 · Last edited by Tony0945 on Wed Oct 16, 2019 2:31 am; edited 1 time in total

I added -pam to my make.conf useflags, emerged -aUv, and rebooted. now I have trouble with:

Anon-E-moose · Posted: Mon Oct 14, 2019 10:11 pm Post subject:

It has a use flag

mv · Watchman Joined: 20 Apr 2005 Posts: 6749

I run a system without pam and use sudo heavily.
But I remember that I also almost broke my system when removing pam: You must rebuild everything with USE=-pam, and also some packages which did not have pam in their IUSE needed a rebuild; problem was that some of these packages were so basic that it was impossible to re-emerge them without temporarily still having pam.
Concerning the sudo-problem, I would expect that a simple re-emerge with USE=-pam is sufficient.

mike155 · Posted: Mon Oct 14, 2019 11:39 pm Post subject:

Is your wish to remove pam related to virtual/pam being hard-masked?

If that's the case: there's no need to remove pam. virtual/pam was hard-masked because developers want to remove Gentoo/FreeBSD, not because they want to remove pam. See: https://bugs.gentoo.org/683284

Tony0945 · Posted: Tue Oct 15, 2019 12:07 am Post subject:

Tony0945 · Posted: Wed Oct 16, 2019 2:43 am Post subject:

Reemerge world resulted in five packages failing to build. lm-sensors, wine-vanilla, palemoon, libmatekbd, abiword
Non of these should have affected sudo. What did work was not re-emerging sudo and everything in the chain, but unmasking latest sudo and emerging it.

mike155: devs have masked virtual/pam but have not issued new ebuilds for the packages that depend on it. I will add virtual/sudo to overlay.
The alternative is to add the five ebuilds that depend on it to overlay, substituting sys-libs/pam for virtual/pam. Easier to move one virtual.

lm-sensors required some surgery to patch names ( _ to -)
wine-vanilla required the removal of eselect-wine, removal of all files generated by the ebuild and re-emerging eselect-wine. Then wine-vanilla built ok. It had just died during install when updating the selections. Palemoon (not in the Gentoo tree) seems to be building with -j1 instead of -j16, but very very sloooowly.
Abiword won't build and neither will top of the tree abiword. I'll open a seperate ticket on that.
meld built but fails at run-time. I'd like a non-python replacement.

iandoug · Posted: Thu Oct 17, 2019 9:05 pm Post subject:

Um, is this the reason why some things which used to run as root after prompting for password, no longer launch from shortcut, but need to be run from command line as root?

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Tony0945 · Posted: Fri Oct 18, 2019 2:12 am Post subject:

like gparted? I don;t think so. I always had to do that with pam as well.

iandoug · Posted: Fri Oct 18, 2019 6:12 am Post subject:

Tony0945 · Posted: Fri Oct 18, 2019 1:15 pm Post subject:

asturm · Developer Joined: 05 Apr 2007 Posts: 8938

iandoug · Posted: Mon Nov 18, 2019 10:06 pm Post subject:

Okay, this is getting annoying.

I don't know what is broken, nor how to fix it.

I have tolerated running bat (Bacula backup software GUI) from command line, but can't get Unetbootin to behave.

Previously I could just run it from the menus and it worked.

Now if I do that, it says it must be run as root and gives me some weird command to use.

If I try that, then the file selection dialogue does not work.

It also prints these messages in the terminal (and others) (bat also prints this):

asturm · Developer Joined: 05 Apr 2007 Posts: 8938

Is that still without pam? Otherwise, the unetbootin issue is a different topic and you probably just need a tool like kdesu (part of kde-cli-tools) to run it instead. This is documented.

iandoug · Posted: Tue Nov 19, 2019 10:32 am Post subject:

asturm · Developer Joined: 05 Apr 2007 Posts: 8938

When do you think this has changed? Iirc you haven't been able to 'properly' run Qt based applications as root (as in: not using kdesu) since Qt4.

iandoug · Posted: Tue Nov 19, 2019 12:40 pm Post subject:

asturm · Developer Joined: 05 Apr 2007 Posts: 8938

Any news item would have been written more than a decade ago, there was no recent change. If it worked for you, then by chance. Maybe unetbootin ebuild should add a postinst message to inform you about it, but that's not my call to make.