Well, I used "ssh-copy-id" to put a public key onto my Astlinux box, but it's not retained across reboots, and indeed there doesn't seem to be a copy of root's home directory on the key disk.
I was wondering how the keydisk works, anyway. Does it rebind mount-points to overlay the root filesystem? I remember that there was a SCM system I used to work with, that did "tear-away" mount points on an overlaid file system... everyone would share the same copy of the read-only source file until they wanted to check it out for modification, at which point a private mount point visible only to that user would appear. It was kind of cool. And it would work with run-from-flash systems, too. Other issues: I'm using a Sipura 942 phone. It's a decent phone. But provisioning it seems a little quirky. You either have to use HTTPS, or else browse into the phone and tell it to access a TFTP url: http://192.168.1.100/admin/resync?tftp://192.168.1.200/basic.txt is the example from the LinksysSPATFTPProv.pdf document from the Linksys website. That's a little clumsy.... I'd rather generate an XML file and push it into the box via an HTTP or HTTPS "post". Speaking of which: how do people do their provisioning? What tools? Is putting Perl onto an Astlinux box a little heavy-handed? It tends to suck down cycles... I suppose there's no reason to have full-blown on-the-fly XML generation... would could run 'sed' over a template... For those that do use XML... do you all have a favorite CPAN package to use? There are 3-4 (at least) the last time I looked. Oh, one other thing: my DHCP server is a stupid Westell 6100, that won't let me set fixed addresses for local resources, so I either have to use a range of static IP addresses and static configuration, or work around the fact that devices can move around after reboots. Also, the DHCP server won't let me hand-provision certain parameters, like option 66 (TFTP server). How does one get around that? Just try discovering all IP addresses on the subnet, and seeing if they respond to the above provisioning? Or statically configure them to use 192.168.1.255 or 255.255.255.255 as the tftp server???? Gak. Thanks, -Philip ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Astlinux-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
