Re: Separate password files on diskless boxes?
Milan Obuch <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.freebsd.devel.small |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On Monday 17 October 2005 15:42, Michael W. Lucas wrote: > Hi, > > I'm using nanobsd.sh on 6.0RC to provide a small world for diskless > boxes. These are for small single-purpose machines -- i.e., DNS > server, FTP server, etc, served off read-only NFS. Nothing exciting > there, it just works. > > The last problem I'm having is the password file. I need to assign > separate password files to each, and separate root passwords on each > diskless station. The problem, of course, is the MFS /etc, so changes > are not permanent. > > Is there any way to make passwd(1) talk to a different password file? > I really don't want to use read/write mounts on my NFS server. Or, > has anyone come up with a clever way to do this? All the tutorials in > Google talk about using the server's password file, which I > specifically don't want to do... > > Thanks! > You could install separate file when you create MFS filesystem. We solve similar issue with script saving changed /etc/master.passwd elsewhere. This file is read when booting. Regards, Milan _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-small To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"