[gentoo-user] [SOLVED] How do I remove pam during/after an install.

[Walter Dnes]

Apologies for wasting peoples' time.  I was also inserting a rather
large USE variable whilst removing pam.  This was a shock for the system
and the real reason for system breakage..  Removing pam had nothing to
do with it.  See
http://wikigentoo.ksiezyc.pl/HOWTO_Remove_PAM.htm for pam-removal
nstructions.  It's somewhat outdated but the basic instructions are OK.

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Note: Don't do anything else while removing PAM. Do not log out of
existing console sessions

First, edit make.conf and add -pam to the USE flags. Then:

# emerge -C pam pam-login && emerge -N shadow
# emerge -uDN world

That's it! Your system is now PAM free.
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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>
I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications