How do I...?

[Kris Deugau]

[Please trim long quotes.]

Stephen Goggin wrote:
> Because our software team's code has only been guaranteed on those 3 OS'

Good luck.  RHEL, Fedora, and their direct derivatives all rely heavily 
on PAM for authentication and related services;  removing it completely 
will mean gutting and rebuilding a fair number of *very* core packages. 
  About the closest you'll get to removing PAM without serious pain is 
the suggestion to wipe the current PAM config, and put in a single 
"other" block that only refers to pam_permit.so.

Can you give a little more detail about what behaviour you're looking to 
see?  It sounds like one effect you want to achieve is automatic login 
to some undefined account right on system startup - adding some extra 
bits to /etc/rc.local or changing the configuration for whatever spawns 
the console TTYs may get you closer to what you're looking for.  Looking 
for information on kiosk configurations may also help.

-kgd