On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 11:11 AM, James Homuth <ja...@the-jdh.com> wrote: > For almost a year now I've had PAM, not by choice really, on my server. > Mostly because I've been pretty much told if it came with, it's better not > to remove it. But to be blunt, I'm getting more than a little irritated with > its attempts to interfere with my attempts to configuring any program with > an optional PAM plugin. Will my system blow up at me if I remove PAM? And, > if no, I assume I can just do so by specifying -pam in make.conf, and then > rebuilding things as necessary?
I haven't tried it, but here is a wiki article about removing PAM: http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/HOWTO_Remove_PAM good luck :) Paul