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From: Sarpy Sam <sarpy.sam@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] pam-login
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 17:12:27
Message-Id: b69857cf0603200905u58751af8wa1749ae49295693d@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] pam-login by Mingfeng Yang
1 On 3/20/06, Mingfeng Yang <mfyang@×××××.com> wrote:
2 > emerge -uDvp system gave me
3 >
4 > [blocks B ] sys-apps/pam-login (is blocking sys-apps/shadow-4.0.14-r3)
5 > [ebuild U ] app-shells/bash-3.1_p11 [3.1_p10] USE="nls -afs -bashlogger
6 > -build" 1 kB
7 > [ebuild U ] sys-libs/readline- 5.1_p3 [5.1_p2] 1,984 kB
8 > [ebuild U ] sys-devel/gnuconfig-20060227 [20051223] 38 kB
9 > [ebuild U ] sys-devel/binutils-2.16.1-r2 [2.16.1-r1] USE="nls -multislot
10 > -multitarget -test -vanilla%" 12,297 kB
11 > [ebuild U ] sys-apps/groff-1.19.2-r1 [1.19.2] USE="X" 2,835 kB
12 > [ebuild U ] sys-apps/portage-2.1_pre6-r4 [2.1_pre6-r2] USE="-build -doc"
13 > 0 kB
14 > ......
15 >
16 > Then I unmerged pam-login imprudently. Ooops, then I could not login from
17 > console anymore, though login by ssh or gdm is still fine.
18 > So what's the problem here? How to resolve the confliction between pam-login
19 > and shadow?
20 >
21 Good explanation here:
22
23 http://planet.gentoo.org/developers/flameeyes/2006/03/19/the_shadow_and_pam_login_conflict
24
25 about how it's not needed anymore and can be unmerged.
26
27 Kirby
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