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Attempt disable pam in Excalibur

March 10, 2026 — BarryK

Caramel raised the question:

https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?t=16526

Which reminded me of what was done in QV:

https://bkhome.org/news/202410/attempt-to-disable-pam.html

OK, have put this into /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit, so will happen every bootup:

#20260310 disable pam... ref: https://bkhome.org/news/202410/attempt-to-disable-pam.html
rm -rf /etc/pam.d
echo 'skip-authentication' > /etc/pam.conf

Um, no, in case an app wants a file in /etc/pam.d to exist, do it this way:

for aF in /etc/pam.d/*;do echo 'skip-authentication' >$aF; done

Hopefully that will work.  

Tags: easy