[SM-Discuss] PAM support

Eric Sandall eric at sandall.us
Thu Nov 12 01:14:47 EST 2009


Treeve Jelbert wrote:
> until now, I have avoided PAM, but because I am unable to build certain things 
> ( polkit-gnome, devicekit-disks) without PAM support in polkit, I think that I 
> shall be obliged to use PAM.
>
> Apart from compiling linux-pam, and things where PAM support is currently 
> disabled, is there anything else I need to do?
>
> I don't want to lock myself out of the system
I tend to update PAM right after installation, and then only need to 
update shadow and /etc/securettys (if I ask linux-pam to install a 
default one) to allow root login on a console. Not sure if I've 
converted a system to PAM after it's been up and running.

$ grep -Ri "depends.*pam" /var/lib/sorcery/codex|grep -v HISTORY|grep 
DEPENDS|wc -l
93

-sandalle



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