I have a CPU/Auth server set up. I'd like to be able to add users remotely (via drawterm), rather than at the system's console. However, normally, I can't attach to /srv/fscons, and as I found, can't start another fscons and open the filesystem under it.
/srv/fscons gets created at startup, by bootes: cpu% ls -l /srv/fscons --rw------- s 0 bootes bootes 0 Aug 6 12:09 /srv/fscons cpu% Since I'm not logged in as bootes, and am not a member of the bootes group, I can't use con to connect to /srv/fscons, and therefore, can't add a user. I read in chgrp(1) that you can't change file group membership when the fileserver is not in the bootstrap state. How then can I get the /srv/fscons to belong to the 'sys' or 'adm' groups? Or is the generally accepted solution to add my account to the bootes group, then chmod g+rw /srv/fscons (from the console)? Would that even allow me to connect to the fscons from a drawterm session? I understand the concept of no superuser and un-circumvent-able security, but someone's got to be able to do administrator-type things w/o taking a trip to the server room... Thanks much in advance!! -Ben
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