Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 10:01:20 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> To: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> Cc: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: beginnings of a diskless boot sequence being committed Message-ID: <199901251801.KAA06878@apollo.backplane.com> References: <199901251124.TAA03489@spinner.netplex.com.au>
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I sure did, but I never committed them. I would have to redo them
at this point. The patch was to have MFS maintain a persistant file,
so you could fsck the file as if it were a disk and then the mfs mount it.
Security is an issue, but it depends on how your password file is setup.
You don't have to export the server's own root - the key thing is that
you want to export a shared root to all the workstations, so it would not
be too hard to implement kerberos as an authentication mechanism for the
workstations. At home, I just export my server's root. Point #2 is,
of course, that you export a read-only root.
-Matt
Matthew Dillon
<dillon@backplane.com>
:
:Luigi Rizzo wrote:
:[..]
:> I haven't seen how you suggest to build&populate the MFS filesystems --
:> right now i use a rather crude method of putting all the stuff in a tgz
:> archive on the server and expanding it at runtime on the client. I
:> haven't solved the problem with passwords (i.e. i just copy the files
:> from the server. -- this is clearly a security hole, perhaps YP-based
:> solutions would be much better).
:
:Didn't Matt have patches for initializing a MFS from a mmap'ed file rather
:than from swap at some point?
:
:Cheers,
:-Peter
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