On 10/11/06, Casper.Dik at sun.com <Casper.Dik at sun.com> wrote: > > > >As I am unfamiliar with building repositories in a miniroot, I am adding > >back install-discuss to this thread in the case that they might be able > >to help you out. > > >I know how to do this in the running system, but how to do this in a > >miniroot I would only be guessing really. ( see following ) > > Check the postinstall script of SUNWsibi and you'll see how the > miniroot's repository is currently modified from the standard > one. > > >But I would wait for comfirmation that above is actually ok to do in > >relation to a miniroot. > > Confirmation from who? > > The beauty of this is that we can back-patch this in SUNWsibi and that > would repair the miniroot. > > The list of offending files is small: > > > "e" files (3): > > /etc/inittab > /etc/shadow > /etc/system > > "f" files (8): > /lib/svc/method/devices-local > /lib/svc/method/fs-usr > /lib/svc/method/identity-node > /lib/svc/method/manifest-import > /lib/svc/method/net-loopback > /lib/svc/method/net-physical > /sbin/rc2 > /sbin/sulogin > > and with this manifest modification we've gotten rid of 6 out of 11; 6 > of 8 "f" files (f files are those of which editing is illegal) > > /etc/rc2 can be improved upon by install the script somewhere else and > changing start/exec for multi-user. > > > The "e" files, I'm not sure if they are edited in a way which is bad > (risk is lower, anyway) > > But a lot of programs have intimate knowledge of "sulogin". > (But three of those are shipped as part of SUNWsibi) > > But sulogin's function might be easy to fake by changing the > password and shadow files. > > (It's unclear to me why the passwd and shadow file are moved to the > writable > "/tmp_proto" area.)
Are you proposing to fix all this, as part of this bug itself? -Narendra Casper > -- Warm Regards, ??????? ??????.???.??? (S.S.Narendra Kumar) Visit my blogs at: http://ssnarendrakumar.blogspot.com/ http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/ssnkumar ___ ___ __ _ / __/ / __/ / | / / _\ \ _ \ \ / /| |/ / \___/ \___/ /_/ |__/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/install-discuss/attachments/20061011/6328dd07/attachment.html>
