SOLVED: unmerge pam-login, what to use for /bin/login

afabco · Guru Joined: 24 Feb 2004 Posts: 380

Trying to get rid of PAM.

If I unmerge pam-login, what do I use for /bin/login?

thx

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A proper /bin/login apparently a part of shadow (can anyone confirm) and should show up when doing an emerge --newuse world (after putting -pam the USE in make.conf)
As far as the audio problem, putting the username that a user logs in as into the 'audio' group lets that user use audio. May be the same for things like cdrecording and such. Not to mention hal and ivman. Not that far along yet. Cross that bridge, etc etc.

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StringCheesian · l33t Joined: 21 Oct 2003 Posts: 887

TinyLogin can provide /bin/login

Looks like it's in portage: sys-apps/tinylogin

blue.sca · Posted: Tue May 31, 2005 3:52 pm Post subject:

afabco · Guru Joined: 24 Feb 2004 Posts: 380

hm. I unmerged pam-login at work, and still have an /bin/login, everything except su (expected) and audio (unexpected) appears to work. So it's obviously something borked with my machines at home. Will explore further.
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blue.sca · Posted: Tue May 31, 2005 7:40 pm Post subject:

you probably need to reemerge anything which used pam without the pam flag.
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