From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jan 25 10:01:47 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA17048 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 25 Jan 1999 10:01:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from apollo.backplane.com (apollo.backplane.com [209.157.86.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA17042 for ; Mon, 25 Jan 1999 10:01:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon@apollo.backplane.com) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by apollo.backplane.com (8.9.2/8.9.1) id KAA06878; Mon, 25 Jan 1999 10:01:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 10:01:20 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon Message-Id: <199901251801.KAA06878@apollo.backplane.com> To: Peter Wemm Cc: Luigi Rizzo , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: beginnings of a diskless boot sequence being committed References: <199901251124.TAA03489@spinner.netplex.com.au> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 : :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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message