Thanks to everybody that posted suggestions.
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Hi,
* Short story *
Is it possible to relocate /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow and /etc/group files ?
* Long story *
I am building a system based on SLES10-SP2 with a read only root fs. My
work is based on the Redpaper REDP-4322-00, Sharing and maintaining Linux
under z/VM. Very inspiring work.
Sym-links should work initially. But consider bind mounting /etc from
a R/W point such as /local/etc (for example).
Changing passwords locally requires other files under /etc, so simply
sym-linking does not solve all your problems, but a bind mount /etc
goes much further.
On 12/9/08,
On Tuesday 09 December 2008 16:50, Dominic Coulombe wrote:
* Short story *
Is it possible to relocate /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow and /etc/group files ?
You're right: you can't change the location of those files without rebuilding
pwutils with a different pathname. I forget where the code for
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You may find some of the documents in this google search helpful:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=enclient=firefox-arls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficialhs=k7q=nfs+shared+root+filesystembtnG=Search
In particular, the second hit on that page Shared,
Hi,
Bind mounting the whole /etc directory does work fine. So does mounting a
disk containing only the /etc fs.
Thanks for your input.
On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 17:09, Richard Troth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sym-links should work initially. But consider bind mounting /etc from
a R/W point
On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 17:16, Edmund R. MacKenty
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
I do things almost this way in some filesystem layouts of my Provisioning
Expert product: I put /etc on a writable filesystem and populate it with
symlinks to a read-only filesystem. But for certain files,
On 12/9/08, Dominic Coulombe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Would it be a better solution to have a local, read write /etc disk with
some symbolic links pointing to the secured files I want to be identical
between two clones ? I am open to other suggestions as well.
Unionfs.
