From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 7 22:24:05 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C646E16A418 for ; Fri, 7 Sep 2007 22:24:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net) Received: from snoogles.rachie.is-a-geek.net (66-230-99-27-cdsl-rb1.nwc.acsalaska.net [66.230.99.27]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 89DFA13C458 for ; Fri, 7 Sep 2007 22:24:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by snoogles.rachie.is-a-geek.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEC9A1CCA6 for ; Fri, 7 Sep 2007 14:24:04 -0800 (AKDT) From: Mel To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2007 00:24:02 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <1756.12.170.206.13.1189198324.squirrel@admintool.trueband.net> <6.0.0.22.2.20070907161149.025a9ad8@mail.computinginnovations.com> <2153.12.170.206.13.1189201903.squirrel@admintool.trueband.net> In-Reply-To: <2153.12.170.206.13.1189201903.squirrel@admintool.trueband.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200709080024.03271.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> Subject: Re: Moving user/group databases X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2007 22:24:05 -0000 On Friday 07 September 2007 23:51:43 jhall@vandaliamo.net wrote: > > At 03:52 PM 9/7/2007, jhall@vandaliamo.net wrote: > >>All of my FreeBSD servers boot from CD, and we are going to be having > >>several temporary employees coming and going over the next 6-12 months. > >>Is it possible to move the user/group databases from their location in > >>/etc (which is read only on my CDs) to another location? > >> > >>I have read the man page concerning pw and still do not understand what I > >>should be doing. Any suggestions, or direction to a how-to would be > >>greatly appreciated. > >> > >>Thanks, > >> > >> > >>Jay > > > > The simplest way would be to put a symbolic link from /etc to a writable > > location. You will need to re-make your boot CD to have this change. > > > > -Derek > > > > -- > > This message has been scanned for viruses and > > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > > believed to be clean. > > MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. > > I have recreated the CD with the sym links, and I still run into a problem > because adduser tries to create temporary files in /etc. If I remember > correctly, the files it tries to create are /etc/passwd.XXXXXX. > > I was able to get pw to work to add the user accounts, but now I am trying > to set the password for new account, and have hit the temp file snag. > > Is this something which can be reconfigured in pw.conf? pw -V /writeable/etc/ -- Mel