Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)
On Tue, 14 Oct 2014 16:37:30 +0100
Martin Read <zen75502@zen.co.uk> wrote:
> On 14/10/14 15:56, Steve Litt wrote:
> > On Tue, 14 Oct 2014 11:25:23 +0300
> > Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Have you actually looked into what depends on systemd?
> >
> > PAM is enough for me, considering everything that uses PAM. They
> > could have made their PAM plug compatible with the old PAM, but
> > nooooooo.
>
> I find these statements confusing, and crave enlightenment. When I
> look up libpam-systemd on packages.d.o, I see the following sentence:
>
> "This package contains the PAM module which registers user sessions
> in the systemd control group hierarchy."
>
> and the following dependencies:
>
> dep: libpam-runtime (>= 1.0.1-6)
> Runtime support for the PAM library
>
> dep: libpam0g (>= 0.99.7.1)
> Pluggable Authentication Modules library
>
> Now, I may be being dim here, but it looks to me like that means that
> libpam-systemd is, in fact, plug-compatible with PAM.
So are you saying I could use sysvinit or nosh as my PID1, drop in
libpam-systemd and no other systemd components, and have all PAM
functionalities run properly?
Thanks,
SteveT
Steve Litt * http://www.troubleshooters.com/
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