Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 14:49:49 -0400 From: "Michael W. Lucas" <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org> To: Marco Molteni <molter@tin.it> Cc: "Michael W. Lucas" <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org>, small@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Separate password files on diskless boxes? Message-ID: <20051017184949.GA77066@bewilderbeast.blackhelicopters.org> In-Reply-To: <20051017204634.42bca795.molter@tin.it> References: <20051017134257.GA74997@bewilderbeast.blackhelicopters.org> <20051017204634.42bca795.molter@tin.it>
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On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 08:46:34PM +0200, Marco Molteni wrote: > On Mon, 17 Oct 2005 09:42:57 -0400 > "Michael W. Lucas" <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org> wrote: > > > 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... > > you can use the /conf override directory as explained in > man diskless: > > /conf/default/10.0.0.1/etc/master.passwd > /conf/default/10.0.0.1/etc/passwd > > /conf/default/10.0.0.2/etc/master.passwd > /conf/default/10.0.0.2/etc/passwd Yes, but on boot /etc/ is a MFS. I can change the password, but on the next boot it reverts back to whatever's saved on the hard drive. I'd like to avoid doing kerberos or NIS for half a dozen little boxes, but if that's the only choice that's what I'll have to do. -- Michael W. Lucas mwlucas@FreeBSD.org, mwlucas@BlackHelicopters.org http://www.BlackHelicopters.org/~mwlucas/ "The cloak of anonymity protects me from the nuisance of caring." -Non Sequitur
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